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Suture opening monologue

How is it that we know who we are? We might wake up in the night, disoriented, and wonder where we are. We may have forgotten where the window, or the door, or the bathroom is, or who is sleeping beside us. We may think perhaps that we have lived through what we just dreamed of. Or we may wonder if we are now still dreaming. But we never wonder who we are.

However confused we might be about every other particular of our existence, we always know that it is us. That we are now who we have always been. We never wake up and wonder, who am I? Because our knowledge of who we are is mediated by what we doctors of the mind call our self schemata -- the richest, most stable and most complex memory structures we have. They are the structures which connect us to our pasts, and allow us to imagine our futures. To lose those connections would be a sign of pathology, a pathology called amnesia.

But it makes no sense to begin the story here, without its history, its past. So, let me take you back to a proper beginning. To a time before identity has been confused.

— Suture

thanks, facebook.

The Imported Stories feature is no longer available. Most of the sites supported by this feature now allow you to publish stories to Facebook directly from the site.

Gee, thanks. I can no longer republish an RSS/Atom feed to my profile. Now I have to figure out how to republish my Blogger posts. Grr.

Update: I have to import as notes. Unfortunately, it only works for one site, and I already import my reddit submissions. Blah.

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I found an HTC sales center in the Park Lane Tower today. The saleslady said they'd have the HTC Desire Z in at the end of the month, and it'll cost at least Rs 70k. 70k! That's about $815. I'll pass.

postcards and encryption

People used to use the postcards argument when trying to promote email encryption — “You put sensitive or private information in a letter, instead of writing it on a postcard.” Today, more people than ever use unencrypted email, text messages, and instant messaging. The usual case is that their passwords are encrypted (but that's not even true for a lot of POP3 users). Almost no one sends letters, though they do receive bills and such, and identity theft is a larger issue than it was fifteen years ago or so.

Is there a more relevant analogy than postcards for the current age?