It's taken a long time. Perhaps a decade late for the Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles to carry out some transactions online, but better late than never. While most of the private industry has shifted their operations online, the government is painfully behind on that front. The reasons range from the government being generally slow, — Continue reading »
Seatbelts and Risks
📆 May 13, 2008
📂 Law,Social 🗨 No Comments
Since my last seatbelt ticket I have given the seatbelt law some thoughts. While in my mind this is an oppressive rule, there is one other side of this law that I hadn't considered before. I have always argued against mandatory seatbelts due to infringement on personal freedom. I don't disagree that they can help — Continue reading »
Seatbelt Ticket, Again
📆 May 8, 2008
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And so the law caught up with me again for the third time, barely 9 months after my last seatbelt ticket. This time I was caught in my own little hometown while driving to work. I was alert enough to see the cop standing by the side of the road looking into cars. I scrambled — Continue reading »
Religious Contextual Ads
📆 April 24, 2008
📂 Religion,Social,Web 🗨 No Comments
Sometimes contextual ads can reveal interesting facts about a site and its visitors. For some time I have noticed that Google Adsense has been displaying a certain banner for a site targeting Muslims seeking marriage partners. Personally I don't mind religious ads on my site. It's all about business. I consider myself an agnostic (as — Continue reading »
Spitzer and Morality
📆 March 16, 2008
📂 Politics,Religion,Social 🗨 No Comments
When I first heard of Spitzer's scandal, my first thought was, "you live by the sword, you die by the sword." But as deserving as Spitzer's fate was, his legacy as an Attorney General and as a Governor was probably a positive one. On balance he did more good for the people of New York — Continue reading »
Pink Floyd Do Goody-Good Bull-Censor
📆 November 6, 2007
📂 Social 🗨 One Comment
Being a classic rock fan, when I'm not listening to NPR, my car radio is usually tuned to one of the classic rock stations in the area. A while back I started to notice that a lyric line from the Pink Floyd song, Money, was being censored. You know the line: Money, it's a hit.Don't — Continue reading »
Seatbelt Trouble
📆 September 17, 2007
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It was bound to happen again. After my first incident of getting snagged in Manhattan a few years ago for not wearing a seatbelt, I got caught again, this time in Westchester county. Not that I wish to get snagged. I almost hate paying the fine more than wearing the dreaded seatbelt, but I suppose — Continue reading »
Parking Ticket
📆 March 20, 2007
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When a website welcomes its visitors, I consider it courteous. Not sure how I should consider a parking ticket payment site that welcomes me; patronizing perhaps? So I got this parking ticket at the town of New Rochelle, NY today. It's the dreaded stub tucked under the car's windshield wiper waiting to greet you as — Continue reading »
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