… the temptation to apologize for how rarely I’m here.
Mostly, I’m working. For better or for worse, I’m on the tweets a great deal. And I’m reading about software patents and hacked software and thinking, generally, that obscurity won’t help you all that much.
In quick succession I listen to Eben Moglen talk about Facebook and total information awareness and then Daniel Ellsberg on the Stasi and total information awareness. I’m thinking a lot about the things I can’t tell you these days. Or the things I should just preface. Like that I thing privacy and software freedom matter. Some people think it matters even more than I do, to be sure. But there are good reasons why, say, backing everything up to Google is just a bad idea. (Mayfirst members can rsync things to a backup server. It isn’t free, but you know what it costs. I don’t think we put good numbers on our privacy because we don’t know what we’re giving up.)
These are the things I’m doing while I’m not blogging. Learning about the piriformis and the sciatic nerve. Patiently correcting every economic commentator who call the housing market “bad” (falling home prices are good for renters who’d like to own something, you see). Looking for a foam roller. Which apparently you can’t just walk into a store and buy. Feeding my interns dried mango with chili and lime and feeling victorious that they’ve finally (finally!) accepted a treat from me. Thinking about what makes me happy and suspecting it is as simple as B12 (and sleep). Looking for new things to learn.
