I think that there is something inherently wrong with keeping large amounts of personal and private data on a laptop. Sure I have plenty of my own personal data on my laptop, but not that of thousands of other people. Such was the case of a laptop stolen from UC Berkley on March 11. Data like that really belongs on a server with many electronic as well as physical safeguards in place. Wired has the full story.

I would like to think that as a society that we would have the ability to go from our homes to our places of work without necessarily getting wet. I guess I should be thankful that for the most part, Nova Scotia doesn't get a whole lot of rain. Or maybe it does and I just never go outside — I really don't know. What I do know is that BC gets a fair bit more rain than we do so I guess I should prepare to get wet a bit. Maybe buy a rain coat or something.

As it is, we have been getting dumped on here since yesterday afternoon and it looks like it is going to continue all day delivering a further 30-40 mm. That sucks.