Must listening

Fer crissakes, listen to Rick Kleffel interview Cory Doctorow about standing firm, not being afraid, state surveillance, and his sci-fi "juvenile" Little Brother, which I think may be the best "libertarian" novel since Suprynowicz's The Black Arrow. Download the MP3 file (or listen to it) right here.

A return, of sorts...

After blogging every day for maybe ten consecutive days — a real record for me — I’ve been absent for the past four. But for a very good reason.

My entire system crashed Tuesday morning. And I lost everything.

Lemme repeat: I lost everything. Every. God. Damn. Thing.

Every program. Every file. All gone. All bye-bye.

What caused it? Homeland Security? Bill Gates? Internet munchkins?

Who knows? But I am back. Tentatively. I am starting from scratch. For some reason, my PC refuses to “find” my printer, which is a nuisance. There are still plenty of things to sort out. But I’m back and blogging — and will be doing so on a regular basis again shortly.

Wish me luck.