My resepect for Martha Stewart has just gone up

Asked about the electronic monitoring device she must wear on her ankle — she has complained repeatedly that it irritates her skin — Stewart says she knows how to remove it. “I watched them put it on. You can figure out how to get it off,” she is quoted as saying. “It’s on the Internet. I looked it up.” Her publicist’s eyes “widened with alarm” when Stewart made the remark. The article didn’t say whether Stewart claimed ever to have taken off the device.]]>

Russia soldier held in grenade attack on Bush

Moscow News reports that a Russian soldier is being held for the grenade atack on President Bush while the President was in Georgia. Details are still pending, but there are two theories: According to the first theory, the counter-intelligence service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has a photograph of the suspect. Law enforcers are searching for him and official statements will be made only after his arrest. According to the second theory, the hand grenade thrown during the U.S. president’s speech in Tavisuplebis Moedani (Freedom Square) was tossed into the crowd by a Russian military serviceman. He was allegedly detained two weeks ago while trying to leave Georgia and now he is in the hands of the Americans. Witnesses of the attack, however, know nothing about the second version. ]]>

Back a century or so

Yesterday we had Stealth Boat in the bay (it’s out there again today, somewhere). Today we have Skoleskibet DANMARK sailing by, although very, very slowly (not much wind). It’s barely moved a quarter of a mile in the last hour, eventhough it has full sales up. There is this computer program called Ship Plotter that I need to get. It reads the signals that the boats send out (name, destination, etc) and plots them on a map. With all the traffic the last few days, it would certainly be pretty informative. Guess I’ll just have to flip on the Coast Guard radio and see what’s what…]]>