Monday, 10am

My section is finished, and I've begun updating our homepage. My goal is always to finish before 11am, but I might be a bit late today.

Not that taking time out every hour to write these journal entries has had anything to do with that...

(Uh-oh, I hope Quique isn't reading my page today!)

Anyway, here's today's tentatively good news:

The good news out of the Ukraine is that the newly elected president, Viktor Yushchenko, traveled to Russia the day after being inaugurated to mend relations with President Vladimir Putin, who had backed his opponent in the elections. “The doors to the future are opening not through rhetoric but through concrete actions that can be shown to the people,” said Yushchenko.

The good news out of Gaza is that Palestinian resistance groups seem to be responding to Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas calls for a ceasefire. “The Palestinian national dialogue has made very significant progress and we will reach an agreement concerning this cease-fire very soon,” declared Abbas. Israeli leaders said that Israel is ready to hold its fire if calm prevails, moving the two sides closer to ending four years of bloody conflict.

Here's hoping that peace can prevail...