Text for today

abiuro gave me back a Jewish prayer book I loaned her years ago and I opened it ran­domly and read vari­ous bits. Given that it’s Friday night and just gone sunset (Shab­bat, accord­ing to the Jewish faith I grew up with), and also hap­pens to...

Morales, Mora, old politics in the new world

Let’s see if we can get the same enthu­si­asm for post­ing about Bolivian gas fields as we did about leg hair… *smirk* I meant to write about this a few days ago, but I’ve been busy. I’ve watched recent South Amer­ican polit­ics with great interest. I’m...

Privacy

[note to self: stub to be expan­ded later] When I vis­ited a recruit­ment agency the other day, they asked me to sign a waiver allow­ing them to store ‘per­sonal and sens­it­ive’in­form­a­tion about me and share it with poten­tial employ­ers....