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robrohr — Fri, 22 Nov 2002 17:31:00 GMT

I haven't actually received the card yet, but I signed my sweetie and myself up as card carrying members of the ACLU. After hearing of the results of the mid-term elections, I decided whatever civil liberties I had were now being shifted onto the endangered species list where they would be subject to drilling/logging/leg-hold-trapping/jet-ski-mashing, etc. (Not that there's anything wrong with any of these fine, upstanding American pastimes.)

If the president's National Security Policy goes through unscathed, I'll be replacing this web site with the New, Improved robrohr.org! Now with 25% less sedition! I hope it doesn't come to this.

A picture of a very surprised person in Antarctica.

robrohr — Fri, 27 Sep 2002 17:20:00 GMT

In the ever decreasing area of privacy, one more corner has been whittled away. This site has been up for a while, but I only recently found out about the reverse lookup feature of AnyWho, the online AT&T Phone Directory.

It works like this...
You can type in a name and address, and as long as the number is listed in the phone book, you can find that information online as well. Slightly scarier, you can type in a portion of a name and a state, and all individuals matching those parameters, their phone numbers and a link to a map of their place of residence.

Along those same lines, you can visit the Reverse Lookup portion of the site, and enter an area code and a phone number, and find out who it is who called and where they live. On any of these results pages, you can click the street name of anyone you find, and receive a list of all neighbors.

Try It!:

Area Code:

Telephone Number (no dashes, ex. 5551212):

[ed: I'm not convinced of the ability of Community Server to gracefully handle forms inline in the post. Go to anywho.com if you want to do reverse lookups. Original post.]

As an example, one can get a fine hot pastrami sandwich at 802-864-4408 and 802-864-0110, but is that really important when 802-865-3663 will deliver? This service not available for cell phone numbers or numbers that are unlisted.

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