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RAIN: Weekly Update 12/31



There are 8 stories in this the last posting of 2001

Honolulu Advertister 12/31/01
Land data office goes paperless
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2001/Dec/31/ln/ln10a.html

by Walter Wright
Real estate and other legal documents filed with the state will be available to review within 24 hours on a new computer system installed at the Bureau of Conveyances, according to Acting Registrar Carl Watanabe.



Amarillo Globe-News 12/31/01
Kanelis: Documents could teach a generation
http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/123001/opi_ageneration.shtml

by John Kanelis
Lynne Cheney recently lamented young Americans' lack of knowledge of their country's history.
In a recent speech at Princeton University, Vice President Dick Cheney's wife complained that only 22 percent of seniors surveyed in 1999 at some of the nation's most prestigious universities knew that the words "government of the people, by the people and for the people" came from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.



BBC News 12/31/01
Dig up your family tree online
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/dot_life/newsid_1730000/1730645.stm

Once upon a time, tracing your forebears meant trawling through dusty documents in local records offices. Now the 1901 census is going online for those who wish to track relatives without leaving home.
Ever wondered who might be nestled in your family tree?



MSNBC.com 12/31/01
Computer in Kabul holds chilling memos
http://www.msnbc.com/news/679996.asp?0si=-&cp1=1

by Alan Cullison and Andrew Higgins
Wall Street Journal
KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 31 - Last May, someone sat down at an IBM desktop here and typed out a polite letter to a bitter foe of al-Qaida, the anti-Taliban leader Ahmed Shah Massoud. The writer tapped at the computer for 97 minutes, according to its internal record, then printed out the fruit of his labor: a request for an interview with Massoud, to be conducted by "one of our best journalists, Mr. Karim Touzani."



New York Times 12/31/01
Internet leash can monitor sex offenders
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/31/technology/31SENT.html

by John Schwartz
Jim McIntire says he likes the computer program that monitors his every move online. "The software is great," he said, because "it keeps a real tight rope" on him.
Most people might not feel the same way about the program, called Cyber Sentinel, but most people are not sex offenders. Mr. McIntire, 33, is one of four probationers in Sangamon County, Ill., being monitored in a trial of the software. Whenever the system detects suspicious activity, it captures whatever is on the screen at the time, stores it on the user's hard drive and sends an e-mail message to the county probation office.



Pioneer Planet 12/31/01
Minnesota: High-tech era helps sleuths dig dirt
http://www.pioneerplanet.com/news/mtc_docs/217295.htm

by Hannah Allam
Andrea Sutherland met her Prince Charming through mutual friends and was instantly smitten with his good looks, work ethic and sweet personality.
So she took the next natural step in building a healthy relationship: She checked him out using Ramsey and Hennepin district court records, powerful online search engines and the Minnesota Department of Corrections Web site. Sutherland's snooping turned up nothing more than a couple of traffic violations, but she said it afforded her peace of mind.



New York Times 12/31/01
New Patent Office has old goal
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/31/business/31PATE.html

by Sabra Chatrand
Next year is supposed to be the culmination of a five- year plan to reduce the average time it takes the Patent and Trademark Office to process a patent application to 18 months from the current 24. The agency is not likely to make it.



Texarkana Gazette 12/30/01
Clinic fights for records
http://www.texarkanagazette.com/archives/index.inn?loc=detail&doc=/2001/December/30-686-news01.txt

by Lisa Bose McDermott
A podiatry clinic is seeking the return of property seized in a November federal raid and also wants any evidence retrieved suppressed.
Patricia Hamilton, an employee of Specialty Foot Clinic, 701 W. 14th St., filed a motion in federal court in Texarkana, Texas, to have items taken from her office at the clinic returned.





Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com
Richmond, Va