I'm pretty disappointed over Congress giving Bush & Co. a free pass on warrantless wiretapping; it's an end-run around the Bill of Rights. Obama voted for it and (in the House) so did our (AZ District 30) representative, Gabrielle Giffords. [Side note: how freaking great is it to be able to get RSS feeds on your rep's?!!]
Not that I really need to, but starting now every email I send will be signed with a digital certificate. That gives everyone I write to the option to encrypt our communication. Modern email clients and browsers such as Mozilla Firefox & Thunderbird make this really easy.
Two certificate providers make this really easy (and free). InstantSSL makes it quite simple, while Thawte gives a few more options. I've had a little trouble with Thawte in that there service never sends the verification email to some of my addresses, with no error message. So I went with the former.
