7/16/2009

Off to the Beach

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I'm off to the beach for the long weekend. Leaving ridiculously hot Cairo for three days on the Sinai Peninsula in a lazy beach town called Dahab.

I won't be checking email, but if you need to get a hold of me, you can call me on my cell phone.

1 comments:

Bruce Kratky said...

Don't get sunburned. We need you healthy to take us around. County the days. Getting in shape. Doing as much fishing as possible before I leave. Will have to find a job upon my return.

Oh, regarding "Big Brother." Interesting events at Amazon and their Kindle eReader. They discovered that they didn't have the rights to sell a certain book. They decided to take it off the library availability. Then they decided that they had better "take the sold copies back." So, when customers who had purchased the mentioned unauthorized books sync'd their Kindles the next time to purchase another book Amazon used their technology and control of it to erase the books they had already sold. Customers realized that the books had disappeared. What they thought they had they did not. What they thought was theirs was not. The privacy of their personal reading list was not private at all.

The titles of the books deleted, "1984" and "Animal House" by George Orwell. Can't make this stuff up even if you wanted too.

7:50 AM  

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