My sleep was interrupted in the middle of the night by an electric guitar. An 'E' chord, crashing loudly through the speakers in the ceiling above me. What in tarnations? I jumped a foot in the air. The guitar I need to make that sound is hanging on the wall - right there - untouched. It's connected to a wireless transmitter (that isn't turned on) that's connected to my sound system by a wireless receiver (that is turned on). Welcome to crowded spectrum. Somebody else in the neighborhood has a wireless diversity guitar system. And for a second or two the signal was able to lock into mine.

I turned off the wi-fi network at the store. Had it for convenience when I was using a wireless card, and left it on for parents to use while their kids were taking sax lessons. But after a few months I started noticing the activity light was always on. Somebody in the neighborhood, latching onto the free service. But they weren't reading their mail. They weren't surfing the web. They were downloading files. And downloading more files, and downloading more files. Day after day. Nonstop. For weeks. Stealing my bandwidth. If I interruped the service they would start again shortly after it came back. Sigh. You try and do something nice and somebody is out there to abuse it. Oh well. Click. Problem solved.

Oh now this is cool. I can take a picture on my cell phone and post it to my blog in about a minute. How interesting... Here's the new wall of guitars at the store...

A tractor-trailer loaded with 35000 pounds of explosives explodes in Utah. (That is after all what explosives are designed to do.) Think about that next time you're cruising anxiously behind an 18-wheeler...

Salman Rushdie is calling for Islamic reform, beginning with downgrading the Quoran from a holy book to a 'historical document'. You'd think he would have learned his lesson the first time around.