random observations

Slashdot sig's that caught my eye:

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." - Mark Twain

Someone you trust is one of us.

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A few years ago, Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems, was quoted as saying
"You have zero privacy anyway--Get over it!" Looks like McNealy may a have a bit to get over.

Yesterday, a US Federal Court ruled the NSA wiretapping program unconstitutional.. The judge orderd a halt, so now the US Supreme Court will have to take a stand (even if they don't hear it). Too bad this is the overseas wiretap program, not the domestic one.

outta gas

I think I have enough information to start writing my reply to the bankruptcy judge's orders to allow the bankruptcy to be reopened and me (and three others) to be added as creditors.

Except that I'm exhausted. I worked late Tuesday, 'till after 11 and then couldn't get to sleep until after 3. I've been up until 3 every night since and it's caught-up to me. I'm too tired to even think about starting to write it. I hope I have enough time this weekend. I have to work Saturday at llpm and we are doing a ton of stuff, so I could be there until 5 or 6am Sunday.

Tomorrow we are taking the kids to Chuckee Cheese's for Daniel's birthday. He turned 8 last week, and he's just as excited as you can imagine about tomorrow. I'll have 3 or 4 hours between that and work to write. I have no idea what state I'll be in on Sunday. I'm just dreading this; work is going to be very stressful, both because of what I'll be doing and how many different things I'm going to try and do (moving data on three systems from old SAN to new SAN, then applying a ton of OS patches to an HP server). I still have to run the OS backup on the HP box Saturday morning too.

If I can make it to Monday morning at the court house to file my motion, the rest of the week should be a cake walk.