I’ve been feeling a little under the weather lately. Yesterday evening I felt weak despite having eaten dinner, and all afternoon I was groggy and couldn’t concentrate. It wasn’t for lack of trying — I fought against it trying to get work done most of the day.

I was feeling a little better after waking up this morning, but I’m once more feeling ill. I have work to do. I don’t have time for this right now.

It’s been a long day. I had a rough start, but at least I came in strong toward the end.

Time for bed, y’all.

As a Libertarian and believer in the importance of Free Speech, I’m participating in the Adopt-a-Blog program (adoptablog). The idea is that, since Chinese blogs are being censored by the government via the Great Firewall, if enough outside sites start mirroring blogs they won’t be able to keep up.

Given the efficiency of a communist government, I’m guessing that they’ll have trouble keeping up.

Please contact me by commenting on this post or sending me an email at runbox dot com address brock dot tice if you want me to adopt and host your blog.

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I’m not really sure I’m doing this Technorati tagging correctly.

Just when you thought the broadcast flag had been defeated, Hollywood tries to sneak it in with an appropriations bill:

Story here.

Here’s the letter that I wrote to my representatives:

Have you ever recorded a program on your VCR so that you could watch it later? You may not be able to do that in the very near future. Hollywood has come up with something called a “Broadcast Flag,” designed so that they may decide whether you can record a show for later viewing or not.

The Broadcast Flag was defeated by the courts as an FCC policy. In a last-ditch effort, Hollywood is trying to sneak it in with an appropriations bill.

I can’t see why you’d support it, unless maybe someone from California happened to give you some money. Did they? Do you have children? You probably have living parents. When they complain that they can’t record their favorite show from the TV any more, will you admit to them that it’s your fault?

As a representative of *people*, I urge you to support the freedom of those people to do what they will with publicly broadcast material.

Please do the right thing and don’t let this rider make it through. Do it not only for we, your constituents, but for your family. For yourself.

Please write. You’ve plenty to lose and nothing to gain if you stand by.