“No person shall . . . be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”—Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The Supreme Court’s narrow 5-4 majority has an interesting interpretation of ‘public use.’
While we were on our honeymoon, a strange story arrived in our cabin on the m.s. Statendam. According to the New York Times Digest—a source of dubious trustworthiness—Steve Jobs announced during the keynote at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) that Apple would begin a switch to Intel chips in 2006 and complete the transition in 2007.
A somewhat disturbing look into the mind of crazy-eyed runaway-bride Jennifer Wilbanks, who had to use money from a cell phone rebate and closing out an old account to go on her selfish, escapist journey across the United States. She didn’t she use her regular checking account because her mom handled that account!
As you can see, my ‘regular posting’ got off to an excellent start ;-). I’m not ignoring you (or anyone else, for that matter), I’ve just been quite busy this week. I’ve been working a bit late (to make up for a handful of honeymoon hours that I didn’t have the vacation time to cover) and doing all the post-wedding changes to insurance accounts and so on and etc., forever.
Melissa and I made it safely home very early this morning after spending about 10 hours in stuffy airplanes. The honeymoon was wonderful; details are in the wedding blog (though Melissa is going to write about our time in Anchorage and hasn’t gotten to it yet ;-)).
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.
