The crazy lady strikes again for Thursday, November 2, 2006

It's a shame we don't subscribe to HBO - they're running a documentary on how easy it is to tamper with the computerized voting machines most precincts use nowadays. Sophisticated computer programmers - or even skilled hackers - can do the job without much effort, "stuffing the ballot box" using sophisticated computer skills rather than literally stuffing an actual ballot box with paper ballots. First, privacy invasions. Now, this. Look out, here comes that Brave New World of science-fiction... Sign in to see full entry.

I'm at that stage of this cold which is absolutely miserable - I'm just healthy enough to be bored with all that rest, yet I still feel the need to take it easy and not be as active. You should have seen me try to lift all that Halloween candy we bought and didn't use (because we had so few trick-or-treaters). That points out the need I have to take it easy and not overdo it with my history of lung disease. My husband is extremely worried that I will come down with another life-threatening... Sign in to see full entry.

On 11/1/2006, CNBC aired a special called Big Brother, Big Business (or something similar), about all the privacy invasions common in today's world. I can quote you one fairly common example, which came up in the course of the special. Most of us use Google to search for things on the Internet. In fact, usage of this search engine is so common that it has become a verb - "to google" means "to use Google to look things up on the Internet." What I didn't know until I saw promotional material for... Sign in to see full entry.