backyard flower combination, 8.10

This is a link to an extremely moving piece on a photojournalist at the site of the WTC attacks last fall; it is a record of the last photos he took on his journey downtown to the base of the towers. His 35-mm cameras were smashed in the collapse of the second tower, but the compact flash card in his digital was intact.

I downloaded PGP for the Mac on Friday, and I’m looking through the documentation this morning to see how and what it does. Helpfully, the publishers enclosed two PDF files: Intro to Crypto and the User’s Guide. Inside the Intro to Crypto manual, Phil Zimmerman wrote something in 2000 that was spookily forward-thinking, given the events of the past year:

“Once a communications infrastructure optimized for surveillance
becomes entrenched, a shift in political conditions may lead to abuse of this
new-found power. Political conditions may shift with the election of a new
government, or perhaps more abruptly from the bombing of a federal
building.”

I also found a newer, better disk catalog application, in the hopes that I can get a handle on exactly what is in my collection of assorted Mac and PC backups, archives and application discs. (numbering about 100 or so right now.)