Daylight Savings Time kicked in this weekend, and I’m not the only one who’s still adjusting to it. I’m not quite as grumpy as Kim is about it, but I’m also running just about an hour late. Funny how that works.
On Friday one of my cousins who I haven’t seen since our grandmother’s funeral in 1979 got married, and I attended the wedding. It was good reconnecting with some family, but now I’m going to have a flurry of updates to the genealogy database again so I can have a prettied-up family history ready for him when he gets back from his honeymoon.
Saturday I slept in. That’s the second time in the past week that my body just decided it needed more sleep than I was giving it. In the evening, there was Kat’s party, and I left relatively early so I could be awake for Sunday.
Sunday was a trip up to visit mom. When I got home from that, I attacked the garage a bit more. I can actually get to my trike now, and plan on doing the spring tune-up either today or tomorrow so I can ride once tomorrow’s predicted rain has passed. I can also get to the lawnmower, which I’ll need sooner than I would like to think about. And there was another nap, which didn’t help in my plan of getting to bed at "the right time" under the new clock. But today looks busy enough that I’ll probably be tired and should get back in sync with the rest of the world sometime in the next couple days.
- Jim and Timmy have some comments on the Iraq Intelligence "Failures". I still think that given what I could see at the time, it was reasonable to figure that Saddam Hussein had something he was trying to hide, and we knew he had had chemical weapons (hell, we sold ’em to him). Now maybe his refusal to allow arms inspectors in was similar to my reaction if I was asked if the police could search my house, but when presented with a warrant, I would comply, rather than wait for them to shoot their way in. But will anyone pay for the gross negligence displayed by the intelligence community and/or the administration? Not bloody likely.
- Have libertarians been Cuckolded by the Conservative State. Of course they have. Many are starting to notice, though. [instapundit]
- A new website called RFIDKills.com talks about the State Department proposal to use RFID chips in passports. Deadline for comments is 5pm EST today. [wired]
- In some good news, Secure Flight Faces Uphill Battle and has months left before it’ll meet the basic criteria laid out for it by Congress. With any luck, the system will get some real privacy protections between now and then. [wired]
- Claire has Twelve Tips for Toppling Tyrants while keeping your sanity. A good list of techniques. [claire]
- The New Yorker has a good article on Medicine’s money problem and why health care is so darned expensive. It’s not just that the system discourages patients from keeping an eye on costs, but there are other issues. [kottke]
- Four undocumented Mexican teens are livin’ La Vida Robot, building an underwater robot that took on the best M.I.T. could produce (at over ten times the budget). I’m no expert on immigration policy, but I’m pretty sure these are the kind of immigrants we need to find a way to encourage and turn into citizens. Claire has more on the kids, as An MIT grad reflects on losing a contest to high-school illegal immigrants. He says that the big story is that MIT lost
badly on technical writing and presentation to a bunch of high school kids who speak English as a second language
. Geeks need to learn to communicate. Now there’s a news-flash. [claire]