Day: June 8, 2005

No, I haven’t gotten bored with blogging. It’s just that there’s lots going on right now in Bill’s real life and that’s taking precedent over everything else, including the blog. I suppose every person who supports a blog goes through periods like this. It bugs me. I’m busy as all get out, then around 10:00 PM or so I get to sit down at the computer and…everyone in the blogosphere has already written about anything that is remotely interesting. I could write the same things, or I could simply link to everyone else. Both are uninteresting to me.

It doesn’t help that the most reported stories in the world are Howard Dean, Russell Crowe, Hybrid Men and Michael Jackson.

Things will start settling out again (eventually) and I’ll be able to get in my typical 2 to 3 hours of blogging in the morning. Until then, well, things will be sporadic.

What could possibly be worse than waiting on death row? Getting banned from using the Internet.

A British man the United States accuses of carrying out the world’s “biggest military computer hack” appeared in court in London Wednesday at the start of extradition hearings.

Gary Mckinnon was arrested Tuesday on charges of computer fraud issued in November 2002 by U.S. prosecutors claiming he illegally accessed 97 U.S. government computers — including Pentagon and NASA systems — over a 12-month period from February 2002, causing $700,000 worth of damage.

If found guilty, he could face up to $1.75 million in fines and 70 years in jail.

Mckinnon was released on bail to July 27 and banned from using the Internet.

I broke out in a sweat when I read that last line. Getting banned from using the Internet…like, forever. A fate worse than death.

WASHINGTON (AP) Senate confirms Janice Rogers Brown for U.S. Appeals Court.