My best wishes to Tina and John.

Now that's dedication!

My nomination for dedication in blogging: From View from the Iowa Homestead, "Tina's in labor...we're off to the hospital!"

Cool, the Supreme Court will soon be the Supreme Court. They'll be opening their own web site (if that sentance seemed a bit wierd).

I don't know how much the Chinese paid Mr. Clinton to ignore them, no matter what they do, but I sure hope it was a hefty sum. Ironically, for a man so concerned about his legacy in history, he's virtually guaranteed that he will be reviled by future generations for ignoring every threat posed by China, which composes what, 1/5th of the world population? Frankly, we don't need to be helping them militarily.

I used to tell people not to worry about the Internet so much while shopping; I felt safer dealing with reputable on-line retailers then I did dealing with a credit card in the real world; odds are good that no human being has ever seen my credit card number from an online transaction I've performed. That may not be 100% true, but certainly fewer have seen it then if I had made the purchases off-line, where at least one person would have seen it on each transaction.

Digital signatures a threat to privacy?: "The problem for anonymous users is the amount of personal information that is encoded with the signature. For example, a site selling beer online may ask for proof of age. Current digital certificates would not provide that information but would identify the user by name or an ID ... [much later]Currently, two congressional bills will put consumers in the hot seat if their digital signature is used improperly.

Update: Wesley Felter points out the the article incorrectly states what a digital signiture is. *D'oh* should have noticed that myself. Still, I was too busy being in a holy rage about holding the consumers responsible for all screw-ups... yeah, that's it...

Well... it would like to be a boundary breaker...

New "Boundary Breaker": FreeNet.