Steven Wood 

Warchalking = Thievery ?. "Wireless hitchhikers branded as thieves" [BBC News]

Nokia has condemned the act of warchalking inciting it as nothing more than thievery. If corporate networks can not secure their wireless connections then let warchalking be a warning for them to do something about it.

Leave paranoia to the professionals. It's easy enough to deny access. Why does Nokia take such a grim view of human nature? "Theiving" presumes resource hoarding instead of resource sharing and pooling.

Don't you have that giddy suspicion that 80211 hosts leave a plate of cookies on the front porch for passers by? Fresh baked bandwidth, that old timey, neighborhood taste. Hmmmmmm, good.

And warchalking is just picking up that sweet, chocolate chip fragrance, wafting on the breeze.

[a klog apart technology]

Exciting stuff unfolding daily. See also The One Sentence Project: send in one sentence to persuade someone to read a particular banned book.

Read Karlin Lillington's mouth watering ode to one of the all time great cookbooks.  

"This is a book for the servantless American cook who can be unconcerned on occasion with budgets, waistlines, time schedules, children's meals, the parent-chauffeur-den-mother syndrome, or anything else which might interfere with the enjoyment of producing something wonderful to eat."

That's the opening sentence of my mother's 1964 edition of the classic cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking, by Simone Beck, Louisette Bertholle, and the ever-formidable and fabulous Julia Child. As a small girl I found it the most intimidating cookbook on my mother's shelf, heavy, and full of long and involved recipes with French titles in italics beneath the English. more...

Karlin blogs from Dublin, Ireland. Witty, curious, passionate. Cookbooks become personal. They pick up stains, fragrances, and memories. The least of them show how. The best show why.

 [a klog apart food]

CNN.com - U.S. appeals Oregon suicide law ruling - Sep. 23, 2002

This move:

• Pays tribute to the administration's Christian right supporters (elections are coming up)
• Punishes political opposition (Oregon went for Gore)
• Reinforces the administration's centralization of power instead of a Federalist balance with the states
• Smells just like the DEA's prosecution of medical marijuana

I have a right to die. This means that, so long as I'm in my right mind, I should be making any choices about how and when to die. This includes getting help in planning or performing related tasks. 

The state's role? Assure that others don't abuse my right: murder, manslaughter, negligence, accident. Be sure I'm in my right mind. That's how Oregonians defined it. I agree.  

If I'm ready for my doctor to end my pain, that should be my right and no penalties should attach to me or anyone associated with the coup de grace. I don't know why the Federal Government should have a right to interfere in a personal matter or a personal crime, normally regulated by states. Where is the precedent for their legal standing?

n. pl. coups de grâce

1. A deathblow delivered to end the misery of a mortally wounded victim.
2. A finishing stroke or decisive event.

From the French  : coup, stroke + de, of + grâce, mercy.]

p.s. not that I have any plans.

[aka shrubbery]