I sometimes hang out here at C99 and chit chat and such. I tended to often be a lurker and only occasionally wrote diaries. I also tended to specialize in computers, and the nitty-gritty of arcane stuff, and hardcore facts and sometimes subtle legal points. Recently I have even had the feeling that I have drifted from being a socialist to a member of the "vast right wing conspiracy," and I also noted that I am becoming more frightened and paranoid.

Well, maybe for good reason, and a recent field trip has only intensified my paranoia, and now I am, obviously trying to camouflage my tracks a little, however clumsily and after-the-fact.