The State Department is teeming with Finns!
While writing one of those you-know-it’ll-never-get-read-but-you-feel-obligated-anyway letters to the State Department (attached below), I noticed something funny in the address bar:
A Linux penguin! Finnish interests have penetrated the State Department!
A simple check confirms:
$ telnet contact-us.state.gov 80 Trying 131.193.154.145... Connected to contact-us.state.gov. Escape character is '^]'. HEAD / HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 02:19:39 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.20 (Linux/SuSE) <--- !!!! Connection: close Content-Type: text/html Connection closed by foreign host.
Letter, for those still tuning in. (See also this related post )
Subject: Constitutional negotiations in Iraq
21 August 2005 Dear Madam Secretary, As a U.S. citizen, I would like to register my concern with recent news regarding constitutional negotiations in Iraq. An A.P. wire story yesterday indicated that U.S. diplomats had "conceded ground to Islamists on the role of religion in Iraq." I hope that the United States continues to push for a constitution enshrining democratic values, with legislation subject to the will of the people, not to "a religious test," as the A.P. indicated. Cordially, Joseph Barillari Boston, MA