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kuro5hin.org || FileGate – Cyberterrorist Republicans or Careless Dem Sysadmins?

January 26, 2004

You knew they were up to no good, didn’t you? Well, I did, at least.. kuro5hin.org || FileGate – Cyberterrorist Republicans or Careless Dem Sysadmins? A junior staff member of Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) was recently put on leave for improperly accessing Democratic memos from a shared Senate fileserver. In a statement on the matter, … Continue reading kuro5hin.org || FileGate – Cyberterrorist Republicans or Careless Dem Sysadmins?

Things

January 24, 2004

I wandered around Mom’s apartment a lot today, looking over objects in every room that I remember from toddlerhood. I thought I should want something. My husband thought I should want something. I only chose a few of Dad’s old things to give to my son. I wanted nothing, not even the portrait she’d had … Continue reading Things

We are our stories.

January 22, 2004

I don’t have a lot of knowledge of my mother’s family. Oh sure, the basics: her sisters (3, and she was the youngest, by 20 minutes) and my resultant uncles and cousins, her parents’ names (I had to give those for the death certificate – did you know that the funeral home issues that?). But … Continue reading We are our stories.

definitions

January 21, 2004

Two weeks. It seems longer than that. Other peoples’ deaths warp time for the survivors, I think. I’d say “grief” instead of “death” but I have no idea if this is grief I feel. It’s nothing like I felt at my father’s death. I need a new definition. I need a word that means both … Continue reading definitions