Towel Day

Don't forget today is Towel Day!

Wired publishes the Klein NSA paper


Hopefully this won't get buried, but Wired has published the Mark Klein story regarding the NSA's splicing of monitoring equipment into AT&T's communications backbone in San Francisco. A summary of the article can be found here at ZDNet.

The almost silent reaction on the part of the general public to the breaking of this story a few weeks ago and the administration's fumbling justifications since has me highly disappointed. I wish more people actually cared about their basic freedoms and liberties. We are continuing down a path wherein one day we will look around and find ourselves in some Disneyland version of the Soviet Union, with no rights but 100 different brands of cereal on well-stocked shelves.

In more positive news, we have had consistently good weather since the weekend, and all the flooding reported in my last entry has appeared to have subsided. On Saturday I saw a couple of places up in Concord NH where sinkholes had opened up.

Soggy Insanity

I can't recall the last day it did not rain, although I know it can only be maybe a week or so that it has been coming down. There is flooding and road washouts and a myriad of other hazards all over New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts. The Merrimack river in Manchester is at the highest level I've ever seen it. It has flooded out Jillians and many of the Millyard buildings that are low and close to the river. Below is the listing of the closures at the time I write this:

Manchester -- Walnut Hill Avenue: Flooding

Manchester -- * STATE * I-293 : Travel lane and shoulder closed from Exit 5 norhtbound off ramp northerly for approximately 1/2 mile

Manchester -- Walnut Hill Ave: flooding

Manchester -- I-293 : Travel lane and shoulder closed from Exit 5 norhtbound off ramp northerly for approximately 1/2 mile.

Manchester -- Front Street (349-478); Maxwell Pond Area): Mandatory Evacuations

Manchester -- Electric Street (West Side): Mandatory Evacuation

Manchester -- Front Street from Amoskeag to Dunbarton Road: Road closing

Manchester -- I-293 Exit 4: Northbound on ramp closed

Manchester -- Dunbarton Road from Front Street to Straw Road: Road Closing

Manchester -- Second St., Cleveland to Hancock Streets: Road closings

Manchester -- Commercial Street: Road Closing

Manchester -- Arms Park: Road Closing

Manchester -- Riverdale Avenue: Road Closing

Manchester -- Stark Lane: Road Closing

Manchester -- Old Brown Ave. from Devonshire to Faith: Road closing

Manchester -- Electric St.: Road closing

Manchester -- Head Street: Road closing

I am feeling a little apprehensive but generally just want to see the sun again.