I believe AT&T has just lost a customer...

SFgate.com reports AT&T is changing its privacy policy:

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."

Apparently, this is a move to protect themselves from customer-protection lawsuits. Sorry, guys, but if you're trying to protect yourself like this, it is clear you don't want the burden of standing up to government requests that are of dubious character. If you aren't going to do that, I don't want to do business with you. I'll mnake this abundantly clear to your sales representative when I tell you that I've found a new carrier.

Error in Judgement

At this point, I must admit that it was clearly a mistake, a poorly considered action whose consequences should have been forseen, but were not.

After lunch, I went out for a stroll in the reserve land behind the office. It is 77 degrees degress out there, a mere 40% relative humidity, with a light 6 mph breeze blowing. The clouds are high and puffy, the sky blue. The birds joyfully vocal, singing praises of the solstice.

Summer has begun with as near a perfect day as I can recall. In no way, shape, or form do I want to be at my desk. I want to leave. I want to pick up a picnic basket full of fried chicken, macaroni salad, fresh fruit, cookies, and ice-cold juices, collect my wife from wherever she's working, and find a wide open grassy space with a few scattered large trees. If there were a couple others with us, a little tossing around of a frisbee would be in order. If not, then people watching, maybe romping with a golden retriever should one pass by, reading a good book in dappled sunshine. That is what today is for.

I, however, am not in a position to enact this plan. I am a flatscreen's slave until the evening. *sigh*.