I’m kind of disgusted with the overall apathy to the fact that we now know the government has direct access to our e-mail, Internet history, credit card purchases, phone records – basically everything we do and everywhere we are on and off line. I know we all suspected this was the case, but I’m pretty disappointed by the lack of outrage on the part of most people (and the media, who get their panties in a bunch when they’re the ones targeted, but don’t seem to care all that much that the rest of us are having our fourth amendment rights violated). You’ve heard stories of how hard it can be to straighten out an error on your credit report – imagine how hard it’ll be to refute an erroneous claim in your NSA file when you’ll never be allowed to see the file in the first place. Your first inkling that something is amiss will come when you’re suddenly on the no-fly list, or maybe when they’re hauling you off to Guantanamo (oh, that’s right, I forgot, Obama’s gonna close that, so maybe it’ll be when you’re renditioned to Yemen or maybe just wake up dead some day). But, hey, maybe I just worry too much.

Like most people, I get a lot of bogus calls on my cellphone, and I’m getting kind of tired by the them. There’s no way to black a number on my iPhone, as far as I can tell, so I figured I’d do the next best thing and add these pesky callers to an “ignore” contact and then set the vibrate to “none” and add a silent ringtone. Much to my dismay, adding a ringtone to a frickin’ iPhone seems to require having iTunes installed on your computer. If you download a utility called iTools, you don’t actually have to do a sync, but you still need iTunes. Since I hate iTunes and have no use for it, I found this to be rather annoying. Yet another reason I wish I could have gotten a ‘droid phone from work. But beggars can’t be choosers, I guess.

If only I could just remember to whatever Apple and the NSA tell me to do without questioning it, I’d be much better off.

Kind of a cool, damp, foggy, and rather dismal start to the weekend here today. I’m hoping things will brighten up a bit so I can get some things done. Or maybe I’ll just sit inside and read, instead.