BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Call of the wild

This article reminds me of “my younger days.” —My god, but I hate hearing myself use phrases like that. they remind me of how young I’m not.

In my youth, I spent a great deal of time in the wild, away from crowds, noise, and people I couldn’t avoid.
I grew up spending my summers in Western Montana, learning to fly fish, and buck bales. The hay was to make enough money for Logger Days and my next dry fly.
The mountains were always right there.

Even when I was chasing stray cattle, I enjoyed the peace in a place where all I had to do was watch my footing and avoid the occasional bear. The few bears I saw wanted to avoid me as much as I wanted to avoid them. In fact some of the cattle were more of a threat than anything I saw in the wild.

People got lost. Some were never found, some died from exposure and so on. But, if you read your local paper you will find that people go missing in the cities, they get hit by trains, cars and buses, and you’ll find very few ulcers being generated just because the fish aren’t biting.

Now my house is paid off, but I’m still working too many hours to pay off my other debts.
But soon, perhaps another two years, I’m going fishing, or maybe I’m going to sit on a sailboat, for about three months.
Then I will decide what it is I want to be when I grow up.

I’ve switched the theme to the just released, Lo-Fi Tribe Tumble-Hybrid.
As of yet I haven’t looked to see how easy it will be to tweak, but it looks like a very simple theme. It should be easty to modify without breaking.

It seems perfect for what I have in mind.
This blog is intended to be one of those, “look what I found,” type sites.

Contractor Blamed in DHS Data Breaches - washingtonpost.com
Read this and ask yourself just how much more secure we are than before this Department of Homeland Insecurities was established.
Everyone will point fingers but the contract will continue.

U.S. Resumes Blackwater Convoys - TIME
The problem with these private security firms, is that they are, quite literally above the law.
These people are nothing more than mercenaries with no one holding their leash.
I will guarantee that, with friends in the appropriate places, nothing will come of this latest in a long line of incidents but noise.

Russia and USA still enjoy measuring their destructive organs - Pravda.Ru

The article is mostly about one of the fuel air bombs Russia has, but the title is about as appropriate as is possible to be.
Instead of Khrushchev and Kennedy, we have Bush and Putin.
The rhetoric is the same, but the quality of the pictures is greatly improved.

Too Clean? Fight Against Germs Fuels Allergy Increase - Yahoo News

See Mom, I was right when I didn’t want to clean my room.

George W. Bush proves to be absolutely ignorant about Iraq - Pravda.Ru

See even the rest of the world has noticed. Why didn’t someone tell King George his slip was showing?

BBC NEWS | Technology | Google calls for web privacy laws
This is coming from a company that keeps a record of every search you’ve ever made, and keeps a record of Gmail forever.

Cele|bitchy » Blog Archive » Nude photos of Vanessa Anne Hudgens NSFW

There certainly is a lot of fuss about one nude photograph, even if she does work for Disney.
The two things that come to mind are, first: Who leaked it and why?
The second thing that comes to mind is that she’s got nice tits for a skinny chick.

Confirmation of stealth Windows Update by ZDNet’s Adrian Kingsley-Hughes — I can now confirm that the stealth Windows Update that I blogged about yesterday actually exists - because I’ve detected its presence on a machine at the PC Doc HQ.