Sick. Very, very sick. Went over to a friend’s house to help him with his computer and was promptly inoculated with the flu by another friend who was convalescing on his couch. My fault, I knew he was sick, but the computer stuff was critical.

I’m still knee-deep in computers. Three workstations went down at work, and I had to build a new one from scratch. Now I’m working on a mail server. This is the job of the Webmaster, when you work for a small company. 😯

Anywho, just a quick observation. I note with some exasperation that, on the eve of Congressional hearings on the subject of identity theft (stemming primarily from the recent ChoicePoint debacle), data mining giant LexisNexis has had its own identity theft problem.

My main talk-radio man Dave Ross had a great idea on how to deal with this and the general problem of unauthorized/undocumented/unwanted transfer of your personal information: everyone’s name should be copyrighted. At whatever point in time you get yourself a social security number, your name, in combination with this number, would automatically receive copyright status. Thereafter, anyone who wished to use your name and/or Social Security number for any reason would have to contact you for permission, and possibly pay you a royalty.

Isn’t that awesome? Why the citizens of the 8th District didn’t vote Ross in for Congress is totally beyond me. Oh well, at least I get to keep listening to him on the radio.