a new home for Em in Qatar

Dear friends formerly known as Yahoo List

As many of you may know, it has recently come to light that Yahoo cooprated with the Chinese government to hand over information that resulted in the jailing of 3 political dissedents for 10 years. You know how i feel about political dissent and freedom of speech and corporate collusion with government and all that stuff, so i have chosen to terminate the yahoo group as well as my yahoo email address. this here "blog" (ohmigod...i'm a blogger!) is meant to be its replacement. as you've also already been aprised, i have a new email address in addition to my old cornell one. i don't know that Google is much better then Yahoo, but at least i think they've only been accused of censoring search results, not handing over info that has gotten people arrested. So anyway, that's the end of the rant, by way of introduction to my new form of mass communication. Apparently I can still post photos and whatnot here, so stay tuned for the next installment in my middle-eastern adventure, coming soon...!!