news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7624809.stm Heh, well Sarah Palin’s stupidity is somewhat mitigated by the fact that her password was probably not actually “popcorn”.

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7623771.stm John McCain’s running mate “doesn’t have any foreign policy credentials”, Mr Hagel told the Omaha World-Herald. Mr Hagel was a prominent supporter of Mr McCain during his 2000 bid for the US presidency… Mr Hagel also criticised the McCain campaign for its suggestion that the proximity of Alaska to Russia gave Mrs Palin foreign [...]

Just a note to anybody who reads this stupid blog. www.eff.org/press/archives/2008/09/17-0 The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a lawsuit against the National Security Agency (NSA) and other government agencies today on behalf of AT&T customers to stop the illegal, unconstitutional, and ongoing dragnet surveillance of their communications and communications records. The five individual plaintiffs are [...]

arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080917-palin-e-mail-hack-makes-case-for-sticking-with-gov-e-mail.html I have no problem with government officials using Internet-based email for personal reasons.

As I posted most recently, I got the iPhone and have been using it (fairly) happily for a couple months now. I have some issues with it like its propensity to crash when performing a particularly challenging task such as opening a web site. I figured that I couldn’t lose much by jailbreaking that damn [...]