Usually the vast slew of electrons flying higgeldy-piggeldy through my house are good and useful servants, but there are days when technology and I don’t get along so well. Today was one of those mornings when my tools and I weren’t getting along.
It started at about oh-dark-thirty. Six-thirty, actually, but I wasn’t ready to wake up yet. There was some electronic beeping, somewhere between a phone cheeping and the smoke detector telling me it’s out of batteries. In any case, it woke me up. About an hour later, I was finally awake enough to figure it out when it happened again. Turns out either the TiVo or the water meter was trying to dial out, but had botched the phone number and gotten some recording at Wells-Fargo. Not liking the answer it was getting, it tried to hang up the line and dial again, but the recording was persistent enough that there wasn’t a dialtone yet when the retry happened. And then the (pulse) dialing made all the extensions in the house cheeple.
Maybe this explains the mornings when I’ve woken up at 4am wondering why I’m awake.
- California is a Golden State of Privacy thanks to some new legislation protecting people. This is one law that I wouldn’t mind seeing spread nationwide. [wired]
- So the House Democrats found a senator yesterday. Barbara Boxer and Democrats to force House, Senate debate on Ohio election before Congress certifies Bush win. Didn’t change anything, but they got their two hours of debate, and delayed the certification for about four hours. [flutterby]
- Davezilla’s list of Creepy things to call your lover makes me smile. Then again, I think I might like being called someone’s
delicious sex yak
. [davezilla] - Billy Beck is feeling a little cranky: Hate Them. Hate Them. Always. I can’t say as I can argue. But hey, I feel oh, so much safer now that lighters and matches are going to be banned on airplanes. Bruce Schneier points out that they’re banning some watches, too. [endwar]