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ESTP – “Promotor”. Action! When present, things begin to happen. Fiercely competitive. Entrepreneur. Often uses shock effect to get attention. Negotiator par excellence. 13% of the total population.
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(via Gary Farber)
Meyers-Briggs
Archives for October 2003
Jackass Spammers
Apparently I am not the only one who got spammed last night by the ‘Lolita’ Spammer. When I woke up this morning, I had to manually delete about 30 spams and block the IP. Really annoying.
*** Update ***
I got hit again, this time by “Preteen,” as did others. Same first parts of the ip address as last night, just the last two digits varied. Is there anyway to ban that whole string?
When Words and Agendas Part
Jay Caruso has some questions.
Nobel Prize
Greg at Begging to Differ has some thoughts on the Nobel Peace Prize winner you might want to check out.
BTW- Greg emailed me this link because he had read something here and thought I might be interested his thoughts on the issue. If you read something here and it inspires you to write something, and you think it is relevant, please email me so I can read it and possibly link it. I hate the blind, out of the blue spamming, but this sort of ‘self-promotion’ isn’t in my mind really self-promotion, but rather adding to the discussion.
Mayor Street
Does anyone know what the hell is going on in Philadelphia?
Iraq
A remarkably balanced article on Iraq in the NY Times:
In his news conference, Mr. Bremer listed what he called America’s achievements (although many of his comparisons were from immediately after the war, when services were far worse than before it began): 40,000 police officers on the streets; 13,000 new reconstruction projects; more electricity generated now than before the war; 1,500 schools renovated; 22 million vaccinations; 4,900 Internet connections
Outstanding Selection
By all accounts, Shirin Ebadi is an inspired choice for the Nobel Peace Prize:
Iranian lawyer Shirin Ebadi won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday for her work defending human rights in an award aimed at inspiring democratic reform across the Muslim world.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised Ebadi, one of Iran’s first woman judges before the Islamic revolution forced her to step down, for work focused on the rights of women and children.
Here is an old Christian Science Monitor article about Ebadi, and it appears that the Nobel committee used this selection to send a message to the Middle East:
“In my country, Iran, there is still a continued struggle for democracy and human rights,” she wrote this year.
“Iranian people want to reform their political and legal system,” she said. “They are protesting against the few people who have power.”
Nobel watchers say that the committee, which includes three women, probably chose Ebadi as a way of promoting change, rather than rewarding the ailing pope or to Havel for a lifetime of peace work.
They say the committee has been seeking to promote moderates in the Muslim world since the September 11 attacks on the United States to avoid stoking conflicts between religions after U.S.-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The Nobel Committee’s own write-up is here. Seems to be a pretty decent choice.