Today was a day of technical glitches. All morning my Verizon DSL account at work was acting very spotty. It wouldn't let me send mail, some websites worked but others didn't and I realized that not having the internet would be very disconcerting for business, what with the emails that customers send me with their files, not to mention the easy way it is to communicate boring but important facts, like you mailing is out, where's the check, etc. So I decided to go back a little to the phone, which was novel, even quaint, as our Attorney General is wont to state.

In any case, it must have been all the rain messing up the lines. The other thing I thought today is that we are much less anonymous online as we might think. I have been advertising my website on Google, and for some reason I see that ads at work but not here at home, which is a different online system. I wonder if Google somehow knows who is accessing it and pages out files accordingly. Makes me think that a person could be very easily duped if a bunch of phonied up websites were to be sent to his address - lets say one goes to look at the NY Times and a phony news story is put on that particular person's website.