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Homeland Insecurity. Incidentally, Schneier’s Secrets and Lies is an excellent read. Hady Hassan Omar’s Detention. The legacy of John Ashcroft.

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USA is not wanted in Iraq. Did I read that correctly? Pat Buchanan?! Fantastic. Why Software Should Be Free. An old article, but nonethless a fascinating read. Can’t say that I agree with all of it, but it certainly forces me to reconsider my priorities.

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Replaced all JPG and GIF files with the more friendly PNG files. Excel files are mostly converted to HTML, and I’ll do the same for Word files soon.

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Yemen Killing Based on Rules Set Out by Bush. I find this somewhat disturbing, but hey, we’re not assassinating targets like the Israeli government. No way. 2-7: Worst season ever.

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We Can Put an End to Word Attachments. Word generates crappy, bloated HTML so I’m just gonna have to convert by hand.

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On a whim, I wiped out all of my cookies in IE and Mozilla and exerted rigorous control over the cookies which I allow to be stored on my machine. The number of cookies which sites try to get users to accept is simply incredible, but this led me to the observation that IE (5.5

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At $6.25 each, the Vietnamese sandwiches at Nem are quite disappointing. A new quest begins… Banh Mi places in NY Soothsayer’s NYC Vietnamese Sandwich Guide

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Guerrilla Warfare, Waged With Code. One rarely reads about the positive side of hacking.

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Sharon Calls Gaza Strike a Success; Says More Will Follow. Washington’s tepid reaction to the murder of innocents should come as no surprise given our penchant for bombing civilians in the name of war.

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As of today, Zagat is a subscription site. I hardly use it anyways as the user reviews on CitySearch offer more interesting details.