Band in the UK
BT, British Telecom, is about to ban a bunch of child porn sites. Hey, I'm all for stringing sickos up by the short hairs. Next on the list are racial places or religious hatred sites I bet. I want to know where it stops. This activity is unpopular (Thank God). What else is unpopular? I'm sure you can follow a tail of thought that leads to political movements that are deemed unsafe like Al Quida, communism, buying tickets to Cuba. How about sites that show you how to do things like recognize suspicious behavior or defeat ires scans?
The whole freedom of speech thing is scary. To be honest, I want the ban in the U. S. too. RIAA will want to block sharing sites. The movie industry will want to block fan fiction sites. RIAA will not understand the difference between business and culture. They already want your fingerprints to buy music.
You know something I don't see is the credit card companies cutting off these places.

This past weekend
I went to training Saturday. I learned allot. I also learned my camera has a different color LED when the camera cannot focus properly. I sat in my apartment all day Sunday and didn't get much of anything accomplished. I still need a battery for my Night Vision Monocular. I can't wait to play with it. I didn't read any comics. I didn't write to my blog. I didn't order the batteries online.

Phones, Banks and Automobiles
T-Mobile is supposedly the winner in the AT&T Cingular merger. I use T-Mobile. I have to say their signal quality is bad. I used to have Cingular, but I had to get more minutes. I like the quote in that article. "People get used to leaning out their apartment windows to get a signal." I have to do that at work and home. I've looked all over the place for a better service provider. No one is better than the rest. AT&T sucks. Cingular doesn't care if you leave. T-Mobile only works six meters from a tower. All the smaller providers have to pay exorbitant fees to get any kind of coverage area.
I started out with VoiceStream. They were scooped up by T-Mobile. It reminds me of my bank in the late eighties and early nineties. First I was with a savings and lone that went under in that big debacle. Then that S&L closed  I ended up switching to USAA. They are known for serving the military]. All I know is they are stable. Daimler Benz bought Chrysler to form Daimler Chrysler. I haven't heard of any improvement in Chrysler products. I know Chrysler had cars with many cup-holders and Daimler didn't seem to believe in cup-holders at all. I wonder what will come of that conflict.

Spelling
I remember one of my prerequisites for an HTML editor was a spell-checker. For this blog I now use Composer inside Mozilla. It has a spell-checker, but it is a bit lacking. It is still far better than nothing. The spell-checker just doesn't have a large dictionary. When it suggests words, the one you really need may not be there. I find myself using Google to track down the correct spelling. For example, "prerequisites". The word was misspelled and the spell-checker would not suggest anything. Google came up with the correct word on the first try. "Did you mean ..." I still remember looking for the Sweetish car called Koenigsegg. Can you imagine trying to spell that correctly? Google got it for me. The funny thing is, Google only offers one choice for "is this what you meant" and it has nearly always been right. There has got to be some fuzzy logic going on there.