Del.icio.us op 13 januari 2009

  • Ehud Olmert: "I said 'get me President Bush on the phone'. They said he was in the middle of giving a speech in Philadelphia. I said I didn't care. 'I need to talk to him now'. He got off the podium and spoke to me.

    "I told him the United States could not vote in favour. It cannot vote in favour of such a resolution. He immediately called the secretary of state and told her not to vote in favour."

  • No matter what one may think of Condoleezza Rice's diplomatic record — which I think is better than many liberal critics gauge — the fact that Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert gave her a kick in the teeth as she departs her office is obnoxious and harmful all around.

    Olmert also seemed to convey that he had George W. Bush on a little puppet string — that he could pull the United States President out of a meeting and compel Bush to veto the course that Secretary Rice was going and had been empowered to do by that same President. True or not, Olmert crossed a real line in his statement.

  • The developers approached us with a challenging task — draw icons for all the vehicles in the World. These were not plain icons but colored images so that the users could pick the right color for their vehicles.
    (tags: icons design car)