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Records of marriage

Monday, April 6th, 2009

Here’s one I hadn’t thought of:

Although we have been married for four years now, the American Immigration services can’t find any paper trail for the two of us.

The comments hit on my thinking: “Let’s hope they acknowledge the validity of digital photos.” Despite being a lightweight “internet couple”, they must have hundreds of emails and digital photos.

We’re hoping to have a “Community edition” available this year that would address this problem. And then we’ll be in the position to “write to your national authorities” for you.

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Misc news: March 28th

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

Fun new data storage error in the Heilbronn DNA Mixup: “It now turns out that the several-hundred-men task force might have really been chasing a phantom… All the swabs used in the forensics works were sourced from the same supplier.” Yup.

When the watchers become the watched: “Surveillance cameras have captured the faces of criminal suspects in banks, in elevators and on street corners. But they have also surfaced in an unexpected law enforcement role: as evidence against police officers accused of misconduct or of lying on the witness stand.”

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Colonial re-enactors need biometric ID

Friday, February 27th, 2009

Our business plan depends in part on the theory that regulations only increase, never decrease. So I’m conflicted when I read:

mule skinners — in this case, seasonal workers who dress in colonial garb at a historical park in Easton, Pa. [and pull a boat by mule at 2 miles per hour]– must apply for biometric Transportation Worker Identification Credentials (TWIC), according to the Transportation Security Administration, which says it is bound by federal law

This is on top of

Park officials say four or five park employees typically have Coast Guard credentials to operate the canal boat, and the extra expense of a TWIC card, which is at least an extra $100 on top of fees for Coast Guard credentials, is unwelcome.

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