The Perils of Blogging

Comment on Slate's Jurisprudence: The Law, Lawyers, And The Court: "Big Brothers: In Egypt, Blogging Can Get You Arrested-Or Worse" by Wael Abbas, in "Enter the Fray"

It's odd that everything seems clouded in anonymity on w.w.w. started at CERN, (Sardinia?) so that "free speech" has been subverted perhaps. I was once fired for "having a blog" without any explanation, not forewarned about that company's policy, and think the reference to Battery Park "swing shift" work in archaeology, required by law, on a new subway tunnel to the Staten Island Ferry, provided by funds after 9/11 and to correct a passenger discharge problem, then dug under a memorial to the 9/11 attacks, an "eternal flame" at the damaged "Sphere" sculpture moved to Battery Park, built by prison labor in the 19th century, (city parks budget records, i.e., ship captain's zoo animal contributions, etc.)

Maybe it was about the cross-bar added to all the flagpoles in NYC parks without landmark review and one windy day the flag was wrapped around Battery Park's cross-bar observation. They were placed under Commissioner Stern to fly the NYC flag and the MIA-POW flag which has been there since 2003 according to city council records on-line. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani once had the state flag of Arkansas flown over City Hall while visiting there as NYC's mayor. I was part of a crew excavating the human remains attributed to the "First Almshouse" in City Hall Park in 1999 when he did. Won't be done again, according to former Speaker Vallone.

Ironically, in my opinion, I was once fired previously by a Berkeley Ph.D., home of the "free speech" movement, for raising my voice once after working for him for a combined total of ten years in contract archaeology fulfilling the requirements of Federal 106 regulations in four season fieldwork, cemeteries investigations, HAZMAT sites in NY/NJ and operating "total station" transits, computer graphics for reports, learning and the sole user of close-range photogrammetry from Rollei, magnetometer surveys, (maybe for ordnance) and generally doing whatever was required.

Simply, the client is out of money, also works.

My point is that I and maybe others also started a blog to keep track of comments on-line as my location crashed repeatedly and I've decided to keep a record of my "Red Ink and Rewrites" on-line, losing posts and writing on-line elsewhere, into a "blog" perilous pit that it is. I remember, DOS had no "unerase" until Peter Norton's red "flippy" disk.