Early morning thoughts...

Yeah, I know... it's not really early morning.

Bear with me.

The LJ notification system appears to have finally been fixed. Last night, I finally got a bunch of notifications from about two days ago. Just over the past hour, things appear to have caught up to "real time."

Overnight, it occurred to me that Fingerfehler has a plausible eggcorn, "finger failure." This, in turn, led me to conclude that an eggcorn may be a subset of mondegreen, which led me to conclude I am beginning to speak an entirely different language.

No time to wonder about that now, though. I hope to have retained enough English to finish the quality document by this afternoon. More work has already been dropped over the transom.

Cheers...

Well said...

Via Bruce Schneier, some words to counter the "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" school of limp-brained argument:

...if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We become children, fettered under watchful eyes, constantly fearful that -- either now or in the uncertain future - patterns we leave behind will be brought back to implicate us, by whatever authority has now become focused upon our once-private and innocent acts. We lose our individuality, because everything we do is observable and recordable.

[...]

Too many wrongly characterize the debate as "security versus privacy." The real choice is liberty versus control. Tyranny, whether it arises under threat of foreign physical attack or under constant domestic authoritative scrutiny, is still tyranny. Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy. Widespread police surveillance is the very definition of a police state. And that's why we should champion privacy even when we have nothing to hide.

And now, I really must get down to work!

Cheers...

Milestone...

My daughter closed on a house today!

For some reason, I feel like laughing. And crying.

Cheers...