What events of the past few days might I regurgitate?

Sunday in my neck of the woods was spent sleeping. 'nuff said.

Monday, I stopped at Best Buy and bought Memento. Delved into the special features first (the short story was majorly cool), and watched the movie while in mass irc.

Tuesday. I don't remember what I did on Tuesday evening. It must be the Memento affect happening again. It happens every time I watch that movie, dammit!

Wednesday. That would be right now. I reverted to my after work nap. Ate some salad. That brings me to right now.

On Slashdot and elsewhere, crypto scare is in full effect. That is to say, worries that the government will try to mandate that all net cryptography have backdoors, which only the oh-so-trustworthy government agents will have access to. Bah.

Strangely enough, I haven't really been worried ever since the week started. I'm not sure whether I am in a state of enlightened awareness, or just plain numb. Certainly, the idea that this country, whose flag everyone has been waving around so proudly lately, might join the likes of Iraq and China in online repressiveness is not something I salivate about.

Maybe that is exactly why I am unable to conjure up great concern: For our country to take such a huge leap backwards just doesn't seem real. It isn't real. Yet.

I've been reading (and listening) to news about Afghanistan, and the nature of the country. Here's one I'm still working my way through. The more I hear, all I can think is, "What a sad, brutalized, unfortunate little country. We should be sending in the Red Cross, not the military. (Except perhaps as an armed escort.)"

Maybe that's not practical though. I don't know. That's supposed to be the domain of people in our government. They should know what to do, and be able to handle it. But I don't trust them. I don't trust John Ashcroft any more now than I did a month ago. The same John Ashcroft who was (is?) in charge of the decision to attempt to give Dmitri Sklyarov an extended stay in the state penn. The same congress which underhandedly passed the DMCA (most of the reps are still the same, anyway). How can they be expected to handle this with any more fairness, sanity, or justice?

Oh well. That's my rant.

In other news, I've (of course) been running Mozilla 0.9.4 for the past few days. Little by little, it gets better and better. A little bit faster than 0.9.3. I've noticed 2 bugs that have been fixed. Is good, is good. Should I apt-get remove Netscape 4 since I never use it anyway? Nah. It might be considered a collector's item someday. :)

Alright, that's enough mindless babble for tonight. Maybe one of these days, I'll actually go out and do something that's worthy of writing about again. Until then, a content drought upon this page. (Maybe.)