Saturday, October 16, 2004

I eventually turned off the fingerprint reader on my new Micron laptop. It's an interesting idea, but it doesn't really work. 11:11:01 PM    comment () I received a ticket I'd purchased from Ticketmaster for an upcoming concert I intend to photograph. Strangely, there was nothing on the envelope to suggest where it was from--I almost threw it away, thinking it was junk mail. It's strange that Ticketmaster would disguise legitimate mail as junk--usually it's the other way around. I wonder if they somehow get more money for tickets that are purchased but not used? 7:17:24 PM    comment () Conscientious UK Ambassador Sacked. The British ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, having survived all the smear tactics that could be thrown at him by his own superiors and the media, has finally been sacked by the UK's Foreign Office for consistently protesting the appalling... By Richard Wall. [LewRockwell.com Blog] I wonder if the English Crusaders who claimed to be so concerned for the welfare of the Iraqi people before the conquest of Iraq (and not at all afterwards) will bother to acknowledge this story? I expect if they do they will express their complete support for Karimov, as that particular bloodthirsty dictator is on their side at the moment. 12:03:17 PM    comment ()

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