klyjen.blogThoughts and points of interest from Jennifer Klyse.Explain something to me.- May 31, 2006 To get a driver's license in Illinois, you must present your Social Security card. This, they claim, is in response to Homeland Security and 911 and the dramatic rise in identify theft and whatever else. (Possibly bordering-on-paranoid ranting about why the State of Illinois needs to validate the number ostensibly used only to manage my negative-rate-of-return "account" with the social security administration can wait until another day, as can a separate rant in re the number of ways the...http://www.klyjen.net/blog/archives/000078.html Say it with me, people.- May 3, 2006 I sent this link to a former co-worker yesterday because I knew that we'd have spent a good deal of time IM'ing about it if he still sat across the cubicle-wall from me. Say it with me: supply and demand. (Charles Krauthammer in the Washington Post.) I know that gas prices are high; they are just now getting to the point where I am contemplating things like carpooling to the office or working from home for reasons other than the ability to spend all day working in sweats and a t-shirt. But...http://www.klyjen.net/blog/archives/000077.html |