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lifeasdaddy - Are US contractors in Iraq using forced labor?

I simply point to Rebecca Blood's content rich  blog post on this question Are US contractors in Iraq using forced labor?   

Follow the links, do some investigating of your own and make your own conclusions.

lifeasdaddy - cell phones to be banned in bank

Apparently, cell phones are being banned in some Chicago branches of the First National Bank.

Schneier's blog has got a lively comments discussion on the futility of this stance.

lifeasdaddy - Julie Reid's childhood - she had two blind parents

Sometimes life raising Edward is not all rosy.  There's days when he tries my patience and my ability as a parent.  That's when I think back and realise what good parents my Mum and Dad must have been to raise five kids, two of us handicapped. 

Julie Reid recounts her childhood here and now as the parent of two infant children herself, appreciates the hard work of her parents even more.  Her mother, Etta, and her Father, Fred, were both blind.  She opens her story with,

"Mine was a pretty ordinary childhood. But not everyone saw it that way."

Her story is anything but ordinary.

[pointer from Gulfstream]

lifeasdaddy - iPod thefts

Bruce Schneier has got a good blog about security matters, a space with which I'm familiar due to past employment.  He talks here about theft of iPods, and links to hints to prevent such thefts here.