Can you believe the woman in Florida who has "sued the state for suspending her driver's license after she refused to remove her face-covering veil for the photograph." haha… Normally, I am not one to mess with someone's heritage, but the Florida law does state that licenses must contan "a color photographic or digital imaged driver's license bearing a full-face photograph". Granted, someone in the Department of Motor Vehicles screwed up in February by permitting her to wear her veil, BUT, that does not mean she now has the right to wear it for the photograph. She states,"I don't show my face to strangers or unrelated males".

I bet she would show it fast if she won the lottery, needed an organ donation, or got arrested.

What bothers me the most is her position that she has a right to remain hidden until proven visible. haha. If she wishes to remain veiled then she has no business driving, unless of course she rides a motorcycle. Wait. Does a veil constitute protective headgear? Hmm. Wait. That's a totally different argument.

Ya know, if it wasn't for blogs I would be lost. It used to be that my main source of information was news, now it seems to be blogs. haha…

Anyway, the LATEST version of Trillian (0.721) is out and it actually FIXED the AOL connection bug, so I am back in business… That was a gruelling 12 hours. At least now I can chat with Tom, Val, Chris, Courtney, Matthew, Jeff, Lori, Alexis, Brittany, and Aunt Sandy again… WHEW… I thought this day would never end.

I don't know which is worse. (If you are faint at heart, you may not want to click EITHER of these links, nor read the rest of this entry). Today's news items: Woman gets life for confining child in closet and British hospital loses baby's body.

I think closet mom got what was coming. Anyone who would abuse their child, once, let alone repeatedly, deserves a lot more than a life sentence, but I won't go there. The shameful part of it all, is, "Bill and Sabrina Kavanaugh, the girl's foster parents, are seeking permanent custody. They first tried to adopt her at birth, but had to return her to Atkinson because their attorney made a legal error."

As far as the second story, well, there is not much to say. It is very sad to see something like that happen. I can only imagine the grief the family is going through. It's shameful something like this could occur.

After reading more on the site I mentioned in my last blog, I realized I needed to upgrade to version 0.72 from 0.71, so I did. On the Trillian site they make reference to a "fix" (disabling a certain feature) that would make connecting to AIM work again. Wrong. I still get the same error connecting, so I am sure now that it is NOT TRILLIAN causing the problems. Stupid AOL, don't they know they cannot take over the world unless we all have access to their Instant Messenger service? hahahaha…

As I sat here this morning, deciding which of the events going on in the world I wanted to blog about, I realized that Trillian was not connecting to the AOL AIM service again… It was acting up for most of the day yesterday, but I didn't think anything of it. Here is what I get:

*** Reconnecting to AIM as "slobokan".
*** Will attempt 10 connections with 60 second intervals.
*** Connecting to AIM as "slobokan", attempt #1.
*** Buddy rights: 200 buddies allowed, 750 watchers allowed.
*** Fatal error (couldn't receive flap): Error Code 10054
*** Disconnecting.

That's it. Hmm.. What's a flap? Why would I want their flap? Hmmm. While reading around this morning I found this site. Is it true? I wouldn't doubt it. With their egotistical sense of being I am sure that AOL would love to be the "ONLY" thing out there, much like Microsoft. So, I cannot communicate with a few people (who don't use anything but AIM) for a while, but other than that minor inconvenience, I will come out smelling like a rose, unlike AOL.