Israel is planning to use tactical nuclear weapons to destroy Iran’s own nuclear weapons program. That should settle things down in the Middle East.

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Demonstrating their desire to be responsible and accountable, the White House shifted recording of White House visitors from the Secret Service logs to the presidential records, so as to hide them from Freedom-of-Information-Act filings. Such information requests were used by Republicans to help uncover the Monica Lewinsky visits to the White House–precisely the scandal Bush claimed he would avoid to “restore honor and dignity to the White House.” Yes, it is true that no scandals about Bush getting a blow job have been unearthed, but a host of other scandals have instead. I suppose that hiding such scandals could be considered more “dignified” than being caught committing them, but how it is more “honorable” is beyond me.

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Dammit, I did it again–listened to CNN for more than a few minutes. This time what sent me over the edge was picture painted of Washington D.C., where Bush was represented as “bipartisan” and “conciliatory,” trying hard to “work with” Democrats, while the Democrats “couldn’t resist” going partisan, while at the same time having no hope of getting their “first 100 hours” achieved, as they have no ability to actually do anything, while Bush has an “arsenal” that includes the veto, Republican filibusters, conservative Democrats, etc. Damned liberal media.

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On the non-political side of things, Hitachi is going to release a 3.5″ 1 TB drive (as opposed to the multi-drive versions that have been on sale for some time), breaking the Terabyte barrier–and it’ll sell for less than $400. And here I was, thinking I got a deal on a $240 500 GB drive….

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Meanwhile, Apple is gearing up for the Big Event–the MacWorld Expo, where The Steve will present The Keynote. That’ll be on January 9th at 9 am Pacific time–or 2 am on the 10th for here in Japan, as usual. Suspected announcements: 8-core Desktop Macs and maybe other CPU upgrades, the iPhone, iTV, a possible full-screen touch-controlled iPod, and a full unveiling of Mac OS X 10.5, Leopard, including iLife ’07 and iWork ’07, the latter including a new spreadsheet app which should round out the productivity suite. Engadget had the best reporting at the last Apple event, followed by MacRumors and TUAW.