This is, again, inspired by CO's original blog on [Secular Fundamentalism].

I will update this entry soon, but judges are starting to make me sick. 

I have been watching the emergence of RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) technology and its applicable uses in supply chain management. I have seen coverage of it being used to track military shipments, walmart products, and even cattle. I was waiting to see it cross over into the realm of tracking humans....

A school in Osaka, Japan is begining to track children in school with RFID.

Practical, yes. Scary, absolutely.

Perhaps you think this is nothing more than a parent using one of those plastic wrist leashes with their child at an amusement park. But switch the context to law enforcement and the idea becomes chilling. Maybe we all need to read Orwell's 1984 again, its bad enough with all the private business camera's which are used by law enforcement. While they haven't moved into the home... well, you get the point.

As a technologist, I always am caught in the middle between advancement and privacy implications. Just as a Christian, I am always balancing expressing concern of the abuses of government with submission to God's sovereignty over all rulers and authorities.

So, what do you think? Is this the beginning of the real Big Brother, or are we already there with government conversation and data transmission snooping projects such as Eschelon, or the ability for law enforcement to triangulate your position using your cell phone. Should we be concerned?

I just ate a Weight Watcher’s Chicken Tai meal (two actually). Unsatisfied, but no longer hungry, I stop to ponder why I felt the dish to be so, thoroughly, insufficient. I suppose it had something to do with the name. Had it been a WW Tripe and Noodle dish, I may have found it to be a surprisingly delicious plate of tripe. Expectations obviously ran too high.

Theory of relativity really.

Thank God for Einstein. I like to think Moses looked something like that 1930’s mad scientist: coming down from Mount Sinai with a glowing face and wild hair, and an almost indiscernible polish accent. If Moses is the one who copied down God’s law to explain God, Jesus and everything, Einstein was the one who looked at natural law to explain everything else.