A side effect of the partial closure of Hamilton's steel mills is the rather noticeable improvement in air quality since the blast furnaces went idle.

Leaving aside the politics of the situation- Hamiltonians are out thousands of jobs unless the steel market picks up- the birds on the Burlington side, at least, seem to be enjoying the unusually clean conditions this year.

Many in the tech community have been concerned for a while- quite a long while- that privacy as we used to know it is a rapidly disappearing concept. Year after year, they've been dismissed as alarmists, radicals, and so forth.

It is now becoming increasingly obvious that those "alarmists" were right. Whenever we interact with anything involving a networked computer, we leave a digital trail that can and will be mined for someone else's financial benefit.

This is not the correct way to use a dumpster.

'Nuff said.