February 17, 2005

I didn’t say anything at all about the death of Arthur Miller, or the assassination of Rafiq Hariri, or even the row around Ken Livingstone. On Miller, I remember vividly studying The Crucible at school: our class was assigned parts to read, and I got Governor Danforth, the menacing state authority who appears towards to…

God, the stats log’s been entertaining in the last few days. After the folk who were looking for porno pictures of the president of Yemen, and the crazed FreeRepublic.com trolls, now we have someone at the Elysée Palace. At 0816 hours, Thursday 17th February 2005, IP address 62.160.71.179 searched French Google for “KH-55” and hit…