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I competed a defensive driving course this weekend, which I had started a week ago. After talking to a an ex co-worker it seemed like the way to go. On one hand you have the option of spending six hours in a room with some hired geek to give these people buying their way out of having a ticket appear on their permanent record a lecture on alleged driver safety. Now I am sure they realize that some of the things they recommend in that class are impossible to obey.

For example, you are driving down the highway and there is a big rig in front of you. They suggest that you allow extra following distance (to the tune of 6 seconds) between you and the truck. Now if you actually did do this you would have a gigantic hole that about 2 or 3 cars would swerve into. Consider traffic and how tight it can get, are any of these alleged "preferred times" really applicable? If you did apply this you would be a hazard on the road for constantly having to slowdown to compensate for these people moving in front of you, then creating that space again. Maybe I am just a little bitter about having to take the thing.

Anyhow, in general the course was a breeze. I only actually read about the first 3 chapters like a "good student". The others i would load the page, wait for the timer to expire and move on. They ask you intermittent questions, but they are common sense. The final was a little trickier than the chapter exams, but i passed in one shot. So that’s over and done with. If you need it for some reason its here
I Drive Safely :)

This was a little scary today too, two bombs went off in Istanbul Turkey today, the same city where the US Mens basketball team is staying and has a game scheduled for tomorrow. Scary

I saw this over the week end also, an interesting article written by The Guardian. If you are at all curious about the war, and don't buy Bush's reasons of "They hate our freedom" or "they have weapons of mass destruction, and have links to Osama bin-Laden" then take a moment and check it out here In a way tied to this, it seems that Ahmad Chalabi is now wanted in Iraq as well as Jordan. He was a source of information for the Bush administration on information of Iraqs weapons capabilities, and they seemed to take his opinion over that of their own intelligence agencies. look for Chalabi

Ok, thats it for tonight i need to go to sleep for more alleged training at the new work place. Ciao!