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Plogress.com

Plogress.com RSS feeds for your favorite politicians. Here are my Federal representatives: Barbara Boxer Dianne Feinstein Lynn C. Woolsey

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Annual Credit Report

AnnualCreditReport.com New Law Promotes Access to Free Credit Reports “A recent amendment to the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) requires each of the nationwide consumer reporting companies to provide you with a free copy of your credit report, at … Continue reading

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NSA Interview

Here is an interesting (albeit lengthy) paper detailing one persons experience interviewing for a job at the NSA. http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/nsa-interview.pdf I saw this in December’s crypto-gram.

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Schwarzenegger Inauguration

[photo info] At least the kids look like they are having fun .

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What’s Your Candidate Running?

Linux Journal answers the question: What’s your presidential candidate for 2004 running for a web server?, in a recent article. Apache does currently hold 64% [netcraft] of the web server market, so it should be of no surprise that most … Continue reading

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Gov-A-Nator.

California Governor Elect Schwarzenegger, that just sounds weird. I wish him the best of luck, he and the state are gonna need it. If nothing else, Angela reminded me that our diplomas are signed by the governor, so even if … Continue reading

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California Driver’s License Law Signed.

Obtaining a California driver’s license just got a little bit easier. As reported here [pressdemocrat.com] Gov. Davis signed SB 60 into law. Touted by the media as the Illegal Immigrant License bill; SB 60 (which makes no reference to immigrants … Continue reading

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Signature

Another Crypto-Gram story. This story blows me away. The guy usually signs his name upside down, so when he goes in to renew his license the DMV won’t accept his signature and refuses to issue him a license, and they … Continue reading

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Even the Governor is Not Safe.

An interesting story from this months Crypto-Gram. Apparently not even the governor of Wisconsin on his super secret Bat Man phone is safe from telemarketers. The story is here.

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Emailing the President

According to this S.F. Chronicle story (which is a N.Y. Times reprint) the President of the U.S. is no longer accepting your comments or questions at the email address: president@whitehouse.gov. Instead you must navigate to the White House Web Mail … Continue reading

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Recall Davis

It looks like the Recall Davis camp may very well get its chance to recall Gov. Davis, however I agree with David Brooks in this NewsHour interview, that this is not democracy. We just voted this guy in nine months … Continue reading

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Record Budget Deficit

We have currently gone from a budget surplus to the largest budget deficit ever, and this NewsHour report says it will get worse before it gets better. A down economy; increased spending in Iraq, and Afghanistan; as well as the … Continue reading

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Links to Help Become an Informed Voter

For this July the 4th, I thought it was appropriate that I found these links which can help to keep voters informed about their elected officials. opengov.us is an MIT project aimed at collecting as much information about public citizens … Continue reading

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Weapons of Mass Destruction not found, “it’s cool” says America

So we are currently three months into a post-war Iraq, and still no weapons of mass destruction (WMD) have been found. WMD was the crux of the administration’s argument that Iraq was a dangerous country, and was what put most … Continue reading

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Russia Kills Last Independent Television Station

According to this BBC story and further discussion on the NewsHour, Russia has closed its last independent television station, and just before elections, what a coincidence. The station was critical of the Kremlin, and of President Putin in particular, now … Continue reading

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Notification of Risk to Personal Data Act

today the california senate bill SB 1386 went into effect. the bill (now law) makes businesses that store customer information responsible for safe guarding that information from criminals. the law states that if customers personal information (credit card numbers, names, … Continue reading

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national do not call list

if you haven’t done so already then go right now to www.donotcall.gov and sign your self up. note: it may take a while for them to send you the confirmation email. i think this is a good thing for all … Continue reading

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