A list of writings by Michael Ignatieff that can be found in various corners of the internet:

• ‘He showed us all how to do it‘, The Globe and Mail, December 8, 2007
• A peace of the weak and exhausted, Toronto Star, November 18, 2007
• La paix est possible, La Presse, November 14, 2007
• Getting Iraq Wrong, The New York Times Magazine, August 5, 2007
• The Broken Contract, The New York Times Magazine, September 25, 2005
• Iranian Lessons, The New York Times Magazine, July 17, 2005
• Who Are Americans to Think That Freedom Is Theirs to Spread?, The New York Times Magazine, June 26, 2005
• Balancing Foreign and Domestic, Toronto Star, June 2, 2005
• A Generous Helping of Liberal Brains, The Globe and Mail, March 4, 2005
• The Uncommitted, The New York Times Magazine, January 30, 2005
• Democratic Providentialism, The New York Times Magazine, December 12, 2004
• The Terrorist as Auteur, The New York Times Magazine, November 14, 2004
• ‘Chain of Command’: What Geneva Conventions?, New York Times, October 17, 2004
• Mirage in the Desert, The New York Times Magazine, June 27, 2004
• Lesser Evils, The New York Times Magazine, May 2, 2004
• The Year of Living Dangerously, The New York Times Magazine, March 14, 2004
• Arms and the Inspector, Los Angeles Times, March 14, 2004
• Peace, Order and Good Government: A Foreign Policy Agenda for Canada, OD Skelton Lecture, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Ottawa, March 12, 2004
• Arendt’s Example, 2003 Hannah Arendt Prize Ceremony, November, 28, 2003
• Why Are We In Iraq? (And Liberia? And Afghanistan?), The New York Times Magazine, 7 September 2003
• I am Iraq, The New York Times Magazine, March 23, 2003
• The American Empire: The Burden, The New York Times Magazine, January 5, 2003
• When a Bridge Is Not a Bridge, New York Times Magazine, October 27, 2002
• Nation Building Lite, The New York Times Magazine, July 28, 2002
• No Exceptions?, Legal Affairs, May/June 2002
• Why Bush Must Send in His Troops, The Guardian, April 19, 2002
• Barbarians at the Gates?, The New York Times Book Review, February 17, 2002
• Is the Human Rights Era Ending?, The New York Times, February 5, 2002
• What Terror Keeps Teaching Us; Where They Came From, The New York Times Magazine, September 23, 2001
• Bush’s First Strike, The New York Times Book Review, March 29, 2001
• The Right Trial for Milosevic, The New York Times, October 10, 2000
• The Reluctant Imperialist, The New York Times Magazine, August 6, 2000
• The New American Way of War, The New York Times Book Review, July 20, 2000
• A Bungling U.N. Undermines Itself, The New York Times, May 15, 2000
• Counting Bodies In Kosovo, The New York Times, November 21, 1999
• Return of the L-Word?,The New York Times, November 8, 1999
• In the Name of the Most Merciful, The New York Times, June 7, 1998
• Dead Soul, The New York Times, November 2, 1997
• Fault Lines, The New York Times, December 1, 1996
• Future Meltdown, The New York Times, March 31,1996
• Minor Differences Mean a Lot, The New York Times, May 13, 1990

Reading historical books, especially the ones based on daily diaries, is like giving you access to a time machine.  I’m currently reading “The Blair Years” by Alastair Campbell, but temporally I’m currently in April 1998:  Northern Ireland, Iraq, Bill Clinton (i.e, Monika Lewinsky affair), preparation for the year 2000 celebrations under way, etc.  A real trip back in time.  And it reminds me of that time period at a personal level (getting ready to move south to California).  Really like a time machine.

These are two past TV shows I wish were available on DVD:

• “It’s Like, You know…“, a short-lived sitcom on ABC, circa 1999-2000.  26 episodes were produced, but not all of them were even showed on US TV.
• “Snakes and Ladders“, a political CBC mini-series that lasted only 6 episodes in 2004.

In both cases, DVD are not available.  Bummer.

Small linux command I found today:  tree

Nothing fancy, but it allows you do display the structure of the files in a directory tree.  All in ascii, and with colours if you want to.  I used to try to do that in the past with “ls” and “find”, but often couldn’t remember the exact syntax.  Available pre-compiled in your usual Debian or Ubuntu repository.