Month: November 2004

Starting tomorrow (12/1) people on the west coast will be able to request a free credit report at http://www.annualcreditreport.com/.  This new service will eventually be available to the whole country but is starting with the western states first, allowing the bureaus to do a gradual roll out (can you say beta test?).

I’ll likely be one of the early people who runs out and signs up for a credit report, using my personal information to shake the bugs out of the new system.  I’m sure everything will be just fine, what’s the worst that could happen? 🙂

The first states are: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.  For more information MSNBC ran a story on the subject a few days ago: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6576905/

You know they didn’t put this page up recently, but the number of things to see in Iraq makes me sad that the human race is so screwed up.  One more place I’m likely to never see in my lifetime.

On the entertaining side, I do like Atlas Tours’s tag line: “We are sincere”.  If we’re rude and obnoxious, don’t fret, you know we mean it. 🙂

Ever wonder where those turkeys come from and where they go?  National Geographic published an article in 2001 with some interesting details (like the trainers spend a lot of time dressed in blue clothing to mimic white house suits to socialize the turkeys).