Day: February 27, 2005

Gilmore is asking just how much citizens are giving up when they hand their driver's licenses to a third party, in this case an airline, where it is put into a database they cannot see, to meet a law that, as it turns out, they are not allowed to read.

“I will show a passport to travel internationally. I'm not willing to show a passport to travel in my own country,” Gilmore said. “I used to laugh at countries that had internal passports. And it's happened here and people don't even seem to know about it.”

–http://www.postgazette.com/pg/05058/462446.stm

PS – attention Firefox users (and if you're not using firefox, whyinhell not??) I highly recommend the QuickNote extension.

If you can afford to send out unsolicited personalized sticker mailing labels, notepads, etc., then I can't really trust that my money will go to support the cause, now can I?

Kthxbye.

I'm not dead yet!

Just almost. Wow – Rob and I both got clobbered by the flu last week. He stayed home from work Tuesday, and I ended up coming home midday Wednesday. We've both spent the time since then taking nyquil, sleeping, coughing, and moaning. Today was the first day I've felt halfway human, and I'm not entirely sure it'll stick. Hopefully we'll both be able to go to work tomorrow. Heh – judging from work email, half the office got knocked out. It's not MY fault, I went home as soon as I felt sick.

More later, I've got to dig my desk out.