Friday Wrapup (12/14/07)

In the post a few minutes ago about the congressional votes, I noted that the Senate Dems had to give in on the energy bill, and I linked to the New York Times story by John Broder; in the print edition, there’s a photo of Reid and Charles Schumer next to a cardboard sign noting that the Repugs thus far have filibustered 59 bills (no mention of that in the story). More information on that is available here.

Now we know that Mike Huckabee is a serious Repug contender; he’s hired Ed Rollins (more here).

This story tells us of a “bot” pretending to be some kind of a flirty Internet chat room stranger (it’s “the most wonderful time of the year,” as we know, and who doesn’t want company, right?), but in reality, it’s a cyber thief coded by Russian programmers that steals confidential information (I can’t think of any punishment too severe for the people who concoct this stuff).

Finally (on a computer-related note), I want to mention that your humble narrator has recently encountered all kinds of misery trying to get Internet Explorer 7 to play nice with Windows XP Professional. My advice is as follows; if you’re running XP Pro, learn from my mistake and do not upgrade to IE 7 (at least, not until Microsoft fixes some of the many, many bugs). Consider yourself warned.