Here’s something interesting… Bruce Schneier writing about people’s overreactions to risk, a topic near and dear to my heart.
Security theatre is no new thing to any of us; we all see instances of it in the invasive checks while boarding planes (shoe bombs? Did anyone actually think that’d work?) and the preemtive measures taken to prevent hollywood threats that are neither plausible, nor likely (I’m thinking laptop bombs, et al).
It’s not like I have anything approaching a solution here, of course — it’s just bloody frustrating that this keeps happening.
February 22nd, 2005
Chris
Well, it so happens that if I sit out on our balcony in the resort, I actually piggyback the wireless connection (poorly-secured) of someone in the neighborhood. They’re not very security-conscious (their router has the default password, a bad idea in general) but I’m grateful for it.
It’s hot here, but friendly. The crowd is almost 100% older than Char and I — mostly yuppies and retirees — but I’m an old man at heart, so I fit right in 
I’m going to take it lazy. Reading is going to be the thing I do most of, I think. That, and sunburn.
Also, although this is a bit less Mexico and a bit more personal, I chipped a tooth on my tongue ring this morning at breakfast. I stopped, thought about it for a second, and then decided that this is basically the last straw. Moments later, for the first time in years, I now have no body jewelery. Over the course of the day, I’ve realized just how much I actually fidget with it, as I have tried and failed to flick it about 6 times just today.
I don’t know how I feel about it being gone, but with the rate at which the tongue heals, even now, 12 hours later, it is too late to go back.