Blackmoor Vituperative

It’s official: I have a new job. 2005-04-20 is my last day here at JFCOM. Shortly thereafter I will be reporting to EchoStorm, where I’ll be doing Java development. I’ll probably still be called on to do some web development and learning management system consulting, but Java will be the core of it. I am thrilled.

My one regret is that I never did get to go to Kiev. I had a chance to attend the ADL Working Group meeting, but the government thought it would be better to send politicians intead of people who might actually learn or contribute something. Typical. Ah, well: at least I got to see Prague and Oslo. I should be grateful of that, because I probably won’t ever leave the USA again, now that the government is cracking down on people traveling. I thought traveling by air was already ridiculous, due to the rampant lunacy which broke out in the wake of the destruction of the World Trade Center, but it’s going to get much worse. I think clamping down on our borders is just the beginning. Twenty years ago, who would have thought that Americans would ever be subjected to uniformed agents demanding our “papers” at “checkpoints”, like some film noir spy movie set in East Berlin?

Fifty years from now, people will wonder what madness possessed us to turn the Land Of The Free into a gulag. I wish I had an answer for them.

Anyway, I am looking forward to the new job.