Thanks to Uncle Maurie for lunch at the Sutro Restaurant at the Cliff House. Yesterday was a perfect sunny day for great people and fine food! Family photos of the day are online at Flickr.

Yesterday's talk by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger at the Commonwealth Club was billed as an address on foreign trade. The governor's 16-minute speech was focused on selling California goods and services abroad and getting foreign companies to set up California outlets.  But, his selling went beyond foreign trade missions.  He gave the audience 45 minutes to ask questions -- far more than the typical speaker -- and came up with answers I liked much more than I expected. He did a good sales job on me. redozdachs and I had heard that his appearances were Hollywood-like and scripted for the sound-bites.  I [...]

Thanks to campn for the posting about Senator Ted Stevens' Internet ignorance. Today he included a link to The Daily Show's segment on Stevens. For those who don't read campn or my business blog with its entry on Senator Stevens, I recommend reading and clicking one of them!

We're back focusing on real life after our fantasy adventure at California Disney and the IAGSDC convention last week. Pictures to share: The Squaredancing photo set has views of fuzzygruf and double_ohsteven (featured in this picture), and there are also some shots of redozdachs, a bit of otterpop58, and many non-LJ'ers from Midnight Squares and beyond. (Note: Flickr's automagic resizing and sharpening doesn't work well on some of the people pictures.  Try looking at the full-size version if you're seeing too many spots and lines!) Family photos of our days in Disneyland and California adventure are in a separate California Disney 2006 [...]

Pictures of friends and the street from Pride 2006. (I think they're work safe, but there is some of the beefcake that was displayed in public yesterday.)

Sandie Bryant called for the C3B class Harlan has been nurturing since January. Wonderful, exhausting, humbling, exhilarating, fun! fuzzygruf (squaredancing) and redozdachs were 2 of the ten dancers. More photos.

It's not exactly Paul Revere-worthy, but I am pleased to see that the Chronicle's story on AT&T's new privacy policy that I submitted at digg.com has hit a nerve.  It reached the front page of the site this afternoon. This is only story I've sent in to digg.  Kinda cool.

David Lazarus reports in today's Chronicle that "AT&T has issued an updated privacy policy that takes effect Friday. The new policy says that AT&T -- not customers -- owns customers' confidential info and can use it 'to protect its legitimate business interests, safeguard others, or respond to legal process.'" If customers don't stop using AT&T's service, the company says that it can give to the government, sell, or do whatever they want with your call and Internet browsing history. They can do this, they say, because their new policy says that who we call or what we do on the Internet [...]