I have lost control ... of my garden that is. I still have a garden in the sense that there is a plot of ground back behind the garage that is tilled and planted with my perennials: rhubarb, horseradish and green onions for next spring. There also are the remains of this year's tomato and pepper plants. Frost the last couple of nights took care of them.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Friday, October 16, 2009
POLITICS AND RELIGION -- BUT MOSTLY POLITICS
You might think from the title that this is going to be tirade about the religious right and how they have inserted their religious dogma into political thought and, for reasons unfathomable by me, largely taken control of the Republican Party. Not so.
I am not saying none of that is true; that would be wrong. And like my media hero, Rush Limbaugh, I never lie. (How do you know that? Because, like him, I told you so.) No, what the "not so" statement above refers to is how we arrive at our political and religious beliefs -- and the consequences of that.
I am not saying none of that is true; that would be wrong. And like my media hero, Rush Limbaugh, I never lie. (How do you know that? Because, like him, I told you so.) No, what the "not so" statement above refers to is how we arrive at our political and religious beliefs -- and the consequences of that.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
ANOTHER EMAIL ALERT TEST POSTING
By Farhad Manjoo
Posted Friday, July 24, 2009, at 7:05 AM ET
It's tempting to blame the victim. In May, a twentysomething French hacker broke into several Twitter employees' e-mail accounts and stole a trove of meeting notes, strategy documents, and other confidential scribbles. The hacker eventually gave the stash to TechCrunch, which has since published notes from meetings in which Twitter execs discussed their very lofty goals. (The company wants to be the first Web service to reach 1 billion users.) How'd the hacker get all this stuff? Like a lot of tech startups, Twitter runs without paper—much of the company's discussions take place in e-mail and over shared Google documents. All of these corporate secrets are kept secure with a very thin wall of protection: the employees' passwords, which the intruder managed to guess because some people at Twitter used the same passwords for many different sites. In other words, Twitter had it coming. The trouble is, so do the rest of us.
Posted Friday, July 24, 2009, at 7:05 AM ET
It's tempting to blame the victim. In May, a twentysomething French hacker broke into several Twitter employees' e-mail accounts and stole a trove of meeting notes, strategy documents, and other confidential scribbles. The hacker eventually gave the stash to TechCrunch, which has since published notes from meetings in which Twitter execs discussed their very lofty goals. (The company wants to be the first Web service to reach 1 billion users.) How'd the hacker get all this stuff? Like a lot of tech startups, Twitter runs without paper—much of the company's discussions take place in e-mail and over shared Google documents. All of these corporate secrets are kept secure with a very thin wall of protection: the employees' passwords, which the intruder managed to guess because some people at Twitter used the same passwords for many different sites. In other words, Twitter had it coming. The trouble is, so do the rest of us.
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