atoms into suns

I was about to head off to the DMV to see about a drivers license, but fortunately someone in this house read Slashdot today and warned me that their computer system's been down since Friday.

As much as I'd like to go off on the Colorado DMV about computer security and virus controls, I won't. I do have a question, though: Why didn't the Boulder Daily Camera run a little notice about this? I read the online version every day for my local news and haven't seen a thing. I just checked the archives, and there's a short article buried in the State section, dated today (6 days after the problem began). They had a front-page story about smoke damage to the Old Navy store; the lead story in State news today is about a lawsuit to stop prairie dog poisoning -- in South Dakota; but there's next to nothing about major state offices being down for a week. Maybe it's my punishment for not paying for dead trees delivered to my doorstep.

So now I'm off to figure out why my comments on this are coming out all grumpy.