For those of you that aren’t in Massachusetts, we’ve had an interesting couple of weeks around a drunk driving bill.
The bill is called “Melanie’s Law”, named after a young girl who was killed by a drunk driver. The fun started when the Massachusetts Legislature passed an amendment to the bill which removed much of the bite. And it wasn’t even close, with the amendment passing 110-20 (or so) in the House and 32-7 in the Senate.
Linking back to Nova’s weblog
Interesting impromptu experiment…cool once, but I hope it isn’t a trend!
These are very important cases related to RFID privacy law. As I’ve said here before, the RFID privacy we should be paying attention to aren’t related to the tags that Wal-Mart wants on the cases and pallets they receive, and that we as consumers rarely interact with today. Instead we should be focused on the RFID devices that we do use regularly today, namely our cell phones and the toll transponders in our cars.
Hacking on a few things these days. First, still finishing my transition to Pebble. I got my Radio website over and I’m working on getting a bunch of private blogs I have in Movable Type over using a variation on the same script.
Right now I’m working on some CMS or Wiki infrastructure for my wife’s new website (details to come later). She does fine with HTML, but the site will be complex enough that it’d be good to have some underlying infrastructure.
This week our company, ConnecTerra was purchased by BEA Systems. Overall, this is a great landing place for our products, technology and expertise. Every day this week has been new discoveries about how deep the alignment of vision and philosophy has is.
As one of the founders of ConnecTerra I can say that I’m immensely proud of the team, and am happy that we found such a good fit. There is lots of life in the RFID business, though it is going to continue to take some investment to capitalize on the momentum.
You always knew the Red Sox had a magic effect on New England, but you might not have suspected it was this much.
LIke most phenomena, there seem to be logical explanations for this. People watching TV aren’t cutting off their fingers with power tools or getting into bike accidents, for example. But if it were only that, people would have documented a strong connection between TV viewership and emergency room visits a long time ago.
Spend a few moments today to remember those who were killed four years ago today, and those who have given their lives since then to keep us safe. I will have special prayers for my friend Phil Rosenzweig and his family.
From CNN.com:
“Watch: Refrigerated trucks full of bodies”
No thanks.
The NCAA’s sweeping ruling about team names is turning up some interesting cases, and one wonders whether its a harbinger of broader name changes.
For those who may not have seen it, the NCAA has ruled that any school who’s team name or mascot is an ethnic group or individual will not be allowed to participate in post-season tournaments after Feb ‘06. In general, this is aimed at teams with Native American names and mascots.
I’m not sure what the whole scope of it is yet, but initial tinkering with it looks interesting.
via BoingBoing