I just emailed Congress to urge them to oppose the Internet Blacklist Legislation, known as the PROTECT-IP Act in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House. This legislation seeks to give the executive branch power to conduct slash-and-burn campaigns against websites that allegedly host – or even link to – content that infringes on intellectual property rights. That would “disappear” whole domain names, fundamentally undermining Internet security, and/or choke off their financial support. The Internet Blacklist Legislation puts more sites than ever at risk, effectively upending the DMCA safe harbors that have been crucial to the growth of Internet innovation and creativity.

Sadly, these short-sighted and dangerous bills won’t do much to stop online infringement – but they will jeopardize our ability to speak and read online with the kind of freedom we cherish in the offline world. Deep-pocketed Hollywood lobbyists are aggressively pushing to control and censor the open Internet, willing to sacrifice free speech and our Internet culture in hopes of controlling how people view their movies and products.

We need to stop this bill before it goes any further. Will you contact your representatives in Congress and urge them to oppose the Internet Blacklist Legislation? Visit: https://eff.org/r.C8A

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You only have a few hours of Summer left (at the time of writing you have 7 hours and 59 minutes left) so enjoy what there is of it before the spectre of Autumn comes rolling around about 5:18 PM local time.

Autumn is my favorite time of the year and the weather currently is reflecting the change of the seasons.

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Argh!  Another Friday the 13th!  We just had one.  And we still have one more to go this year (it’s in November).

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It seems that the swearing in wasn’t quite up to snuff yesterday as Obama had to be sworn in again today.  Yeah, I noticed that the justice had flubbed the oath and got Obama a bit flustered when he tried to say the oath correctly.

To those how are concerned, yes, my wife is doing better.  She is still in pan, but not near as much as yesterday.  I did the noble thing and stay with her again today (after taking the kids to school and quelling a minor rebellion at work).  Thank you for the concerned emails and well-wishing.

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Barack H. Obama is now our 44th president.  I was watching on CNN.com and using the Facebook interface to keep up with friends who watch of television.  I have to say that the speech was inspiring, something along the lines I would have expected JFK to make had he been elected today.

The President has a long, hard road ahead of him.

Did anyone notice how quiet it was when ‘W’ came out as opposed to the fan-fair that greeted Obama?

And I could swear that the justice of the peace swearing in Obama had the oath of office wrong, though Obama said them in the correct order.  I’ll have to check the recording on my TV.

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Happy Valentine’s Day

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Just in case you forgot.. TOMORROW IS VALENTINE’S DAY!  Panic!  You have only a few hours to get that girl a really big bouquet of roses or she’ll use you as a bowling pin on Friday night… and not in the good way either.

Yes, I have arranged for my flowers to be delivered, chocolates to received, and kisses to be stolen.

So remember, stimulate the economy and by flowers for all your girls.

(This is a paid announcement by WWAGTPTHBLITDGR – Women Who Are Going To Punish Their Husbands-Boyfriends-Lovers If They Don’t Get Roses)

Feeling:  Amorous

Listening to Serenity by Original Score

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Happy Chinese New Year to everyone. 

I’m guessing from the media blitz that this is the year of the Earth Rat or SHU.  So people born this year are supposed to be characterized as smart, likable, take charge, protective, and a bit on the selfish side with the Earth sign make this person more grounded and stabilized.

So have a good year everyone!

Feeling: slow

Listening to Fallen by Evanescence

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