Well, I guess more accurately, it would be “exhausting weekend.” On Friday, I moved mom into an assisted-living home and then spent the evening with my good friend, beer. Saturday I went and picked up a trailer and informed the lawyer of various things that were up. Sunday, Mark and I went up to mom’s to grab the rest of her stuff, move it into my place, and then sent another email to the lawyer. This morning, I’m up early, waiting for said lawyer to get into the office so we can talk over all the headaches, and try to find a way around them. When that’s done, I’ll need to return the trailer and try and get on with the work-week. In any case, I’m pretty glad that February is done.
I suspect that much of this week will be spent wrapping up things to do with moving mom out of her house, rather than on paying work. The spring training vacation? Well, I’d still like to get that planned, but there’s a possible job coming, and I suspect just about the time I’m ready to go on vacation, the job will come online, and I’ll be busy working on that rather than taking some time off.
- More on the death of anonymity on the ’net: Publius, RIP? It’s actually nothing new, but companies are using the law to force ISPs to tell who their customers are more and more often. [boing boing]
- Reverse engineering is just one way of Protecting creativity that big companies like those in the MPAA and RIAA would like kill with intellectual property laws. But the story about the guy who got his iPod to dump its firmware out as audio is pretty darned cool. [boing boing]
- Hmm. Did you know it’s possible to not pay for Social Security Insurance? The Amish & Social Security explains how
the Old Order Amish, and any other religious sect who conscientiously objected to insurance
have been exempt from Social Security since 1965. I did not know that. [claire] - In The Daily Bleed, Jim points to another online calendar that’s hard to read (red on black and white on red? wtf were they thinking? Oh wait, there’s even red on red! Bonus!) but has some good content. But the thing that really caught my eye was the graphic he used with it. Recommended! [jim]
- The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has aprofile of John Gilmore: Millionaire John Gilmore stays close to home while making a point about privacy. Interesting in that Gilmore explains just why it is that he’s fighting the federal government over having to show ID to fly:
[boing boing]Are they just basically saying we just can’t travel without identity papers? If that’s true, then I’d rather see us go through a real debate that says we want to introduce required identity papers in our society rather than trying to legislate it through the back door through regulations that say there’s not any other way to get around. Basically what they want is a show of obedience.