All the Devils Are Here

It's the new book by Joe Nocera and Bethany McNeal on the financial crisis.


Google Books put the whole book online. I wonder for how long they'll leave it up. Anyway, take a look. It looks interesting.

It's amazing how little understood the financial crisis is two years after it peaked in September/October 2008.

The IDF is down, because some of the servers of Worldcrossing like WC5, which hosts the IDF, aren't working.

Now, around noon on Tuesday, Worldcrossing is announcing that they hope to be back up on Wednesday. We'll see.

I miss the forum, the discussion on Doctor Faustus and the argument on climate change among other things.

Here's a good article from the New York Times on climate change:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/07/science/earth/07climate.html?_r=1&hp



Part of the article is this timeline of climate change:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/12/07/science/20091207_CLIMATE_TIMELINE.html

Science and Politics of Climate Change

I only realized this morning that Worldcrossing is down, or at least the server WC5 which hosts the International Digest Forum.

Since I didn't have time for the IDF on Sunday and Monday, I don't know for how long the current status has been lasting. Worldcrossing only tells that they'll give a status report on the problems today at 9 am forum i.e. Pacific Standard Time.

Hope you guys are out there and fine.

Saakashvili under Pressure from EU Probe

By Uwe Klussmann

An EU enquiry investigating the events of last summer's conflict between Russia and Georgia is shining an unfavorable light on Mikheil Saakashvili. A secret document may prove that the Georgian president had planned a war of aggression in South Ossetia.

Correction: Worldcrossing's WC1 server, which hosts Moulton's Playspace, the International Forum Archive and Random International seems to do o.k.

I was mislead in my previous post because www.worldcrossing.com didn't get displayed for me. But later I could log in and post in Moulton's forum.

Not only the International Digest Forum seems to be down, but all of Worldcrossing.

I can't find the time to visit the International Digest Forum daily to post there so I'm not sure if this is a temporary problem or if Worldcrossing has been down for a while.

I appreciate comments on the status of Worldcrossing and the forums there.

This is kind of an emergency blog. When the IDF forum in Worldcrossing is up and running I rarely find the time to write in this blog.

Forum Blog

So this is like Day Twelve in my life as a blogger.

Today was the first day in over two weeks that I could post fairly normally in the INTERNATIONAL DIGEST FORUM - until like half an hour ago.

I posted for an hour or two in the IDF this morning (Berlin time, after midnight PDT). And again for an hour in the evening- until the server went down again.

However, even before that happened, quite a few odd things were happening. Like, after I posted in RANDOM INTERNATIONAL and clicking on YOUR FORUMS again I was not listed as hosting the IDF any longer. I had to go the list of all PUBLIC FORUMS to return to the IDF.

And the page view number was growing peculiarly fast as I was watching. Before noon the page views had reached already an unprobably high thirteen thousand.

I remember a single day in the last three years that the page views were above ten thousand on a single day and that was in January 2006, when the shit hit the fan in the IDF.