If the Yalies would do something to the folks who made the decision to go with using the SSN info in the first place, now that this has happened...

Princeton Removes Dean in Web Flap. A Princeton University dean will be removed from his job for accessing Yale University's admissions Web site without authorization. By The Associated Press.

You can see my earlier rant about this incident, Stop the madness!

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When we took our family vacation this past May, my son was forced to surrender his clear plastic squirt-gun (with its green and pink plumbing visible) at the checkpoint. Luckily, SHE and I were able to distract him long enough for the event to fall out of his attention span, or else the flight would have been miserable for many.

Airport screeners take boy's tiny G.I. Joe rubber rifle

I think it was McGee who said something about this trend of reducing the need for workers to think critically, and not necessarily for the betterment of job performance...

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When I made the move to OS X, I also upgraded to BBEdit v6.5.x. While there are certain benefits, such as a tighter integration with *nix-y things, the loss of some plug-ins has caused some discomfort, like Dan Crevier's HTML Grabber plug-in, for instance.

Thanks to Rob Jorgensen's Applescript Info Radio blog, I now have some of that particular functionality back, thanks to this entry:

grabURL v1.0.1 - grabURL is a BBEdit script to grab text documents from Web servers. [d/l]

One down, just a few more to go...

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