I'm fast approaching the point where's it's simpler to rewrite this script in Perl, but it's fun to find answers to the problems I'm encountering. - Gustaf Erikson
``Russia has been an empire for centuries. The last fifteen years or so were not the new reality, but simply an aberration that would be rectified. And now it is being rectified. Whether the US and its allies can mount a coherent response has now become a central question of Western foreign policy.'' - Gustaf Erikson
Best analysis of the Georgian mess yet. "It is difficult to explain why Kosovo should have the right to unilaterally declare its independence from Serbia, while the same right should be denied to places such as South Ossetia and Abkhazia." - Gustaf Erikson