Oh great...

This week I purchased a new trackball mouse from Kensington and the first full scan of the computer after that turns up a trojan from Wild Tangent in the Kensington program file folder. Its name is "blastrb2.exe". Now why would Kensington put such a file on their installation CD?????

Thank you France

I am glad to see the French government speaking out against the Pope's stand against the use of condoms in the fight against the spread of AIDS.

Ignorance unchained

This guy is a complete and utter fool. One would hope that they would change their views and move into the 21st Century but superstition apparently has no bounds as it blinds people to the truth.

Corruption

How corrupt can a business become? This is insane.

Financial Crisis

I would not want to be in Mr. Obama's shoes. No matter what he says or does, it is going to be a case of too little too late...late because of George Bush's inaction when he was in office. Now, however the crisis is so bad that nothing short of complete worldwide economic collapse or a major war to stimulate production, will change things in any way, positive or otherwise.

On a personal note, when I retired at the end of 2003 my financial adviser told me I had enough in my personal retirement accounts (mutual funds, etc) to last me until I was in my eighties. Well, it isn't going to work out that way and at the current rate of devaluation, those funds will be depleted by the end of this year, long before I am in my eighties, and I cannot live on Social Security alone.

So Mr. President, or anyone, what are you going to do to reverse this trend? Will I be living in a tent city somewhere? And speaking of tent cities, I was surprised to see a piece on a local TV station last night about tent cities in Sacramento, Reno, and Nagoya, Japan. Those living in the ones in Reno and Sacramento sounded and looked liked ordinary people too...not the crazies one sees frequently panhandling on the streets of San Francisco.

How well dressed are you?

OK, how do you stack up against these notables?

GPS Tracking

I have mixed feelings about this for the average citizen however for the guilty or those prone to do wrong, this is a great tool. The problem is probable cause and/or past records vs. the innocent. Who is to decide when this tool is used or not? I can see it being used for all those currently on parole where the likelihood of repeat offenses is very high. For other people it would be a bit of Big Brother moving in on our lives.

Newspaper reading (continued) & rain

The other day I said "Who the hell wants to stay in the john long enough to read a newspaper"? Actually, that was somewhat of a rhetorical question because we have had people in the office with that reputation. Even one of the administrative assistants sent me into the men's room one time looking for a manager. (He was last seen heading in that direction with a newspaper.) LOL Personally, I want to get in and out as quickly as possible.

On other matters, when is this infernal rain in San Francisco going to end? January was very dry but February and now March are very wet. In fact, today I got caught in two cloudbursts going to and from the doctor's office. The second time there was even hail mixed in with the downpour. Looks like Wednesday again will be wet but with any luck we might start drying out in the next few days.

Then the $64,000,000 question: When is the stock market going to start going up? My retirement accounts have lost far too much value during the past three months and I may have to start panhandling to make ends meet. LOL (I would be terrible at that.)