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Thursday, September 18, 2003
posted by gbarto at 11:54 AM:
The five people who drop by here from time to time may have noticed we were missing last night. ITX Design, where this page is hosted, had an electrical fire and had to shut down power to their complex so that no fire fighters would get electrocuted putting it out. Glad I kept a little bit cool about the outage, since I'd feel pretty stupid accidentally asserting that the TurkeyBlog's accessibility was more important than the lives of the fire personnel! Anyway, our best wishes to ITX Design, which has been a good and reliable hosting service, and which had the good grace to send everyone a note as to what was up, not just those who complained.As to what was missing, here are the posts at the Old Turkey Blog last night:
Marcus wonders where the civil libertarians were when black boxes went in cars.
Hmmm. gbarto.com down. So, in fact, is the host company, ITX Design. I'll be curious to see how long it takes them to get back on-line. Glad I'm just selling a few books with them, and not trying to run a big time business.
Anyway, here are French news headlines, to be updated to the main site when it's back up:
Le Monde: Paris and Berlin Take the Initiative In Relaunch. It's their 81st summit and the second joint ministerial conference. On the docket: Economic issues.
Le Figaro: Corsica, Security, Islam, Sarkozy's Truths. So now we know the top three things on the mind of the Interior Minister.
Libération: Air of Regression In Recess - as talk of uniforms, same sex schools, etc., suggests a return to the authoritarian school of yesteryear.
Ouest-France: Local Taxes Going Up - now that the PM is transferring authority from Paris to the provinces.
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