The Right to Take Pictures
A good article over at Wired.com about a guerrilla photographer often harassed for taking pictures in public. (Link Here.) Are we so afraid of terrorists that we have lost some common sense? I hope not, yet it is always fear that causes the most damage to rights and privileges. It will be fear that leads us into a place none of us will care to live in as a country. We will be safe from fear, but we will not be safe.

The World Changes
Last Friday the FCC made an historic change in the Amateur (Ham) Radio regulations. No longer will there be a Morse Code requirement for licensing above the Technician level.

I have always wanted to be a Ham radio operator. When I was a kid (and until 1990) no license was available without knowing Morse Code. I never was able to learn it. I loved listening to Shortwave radio, but was never able to become a real radio ham. Finally, two years ago I got the technician's license without code. But that was as far as I was ever going to get.

Until now.

Call me a geek or nerd, but at this point, life is made up of all kinds of simple pleasures.

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