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"If terrorists are rare, bombs are rarer. To live a live afraid of everything that might just be a bomb is to live a wasted life.

"Ten years ago the city where I live was bombed by the IRA. By luck nobody was killed despite buildings over a 400 metre radius being badly damaged. I walked through the city centre the following morning, walking on inches thick layers of broken glass outside the cordoned off epicentre of the explosion. To be afraid of the IRA at the time was to give them a victory. To treat the current terrorist threat as something special is to give them a victory. Ignore then, laugh at them, try to understand them, but for gods sake do not give them a victory."

-- Geoff Lane, 2007-02-23, in a comment on Bruce Schneier's blog [emphasis added by me -- DGA]

Next car-shopping question: can I fit the bass into a 4-door Mazda 626? Wheee. Have I mentioned lately just how much I hate car shopping?

I thought I'd hit the jackpot when I saw a Volvo wagon for sale in my price range, but it turned out to be a "project or for parts" type of ad. I've thought I wanted a Volvo wagon (probably a 740) since the mid-1980s. But apparently my looking for a Volvo station wagon I can afford is about as useful as my wishing for a Lamborghini. As slowly as Volvos seem to age, it seems they depreciate even more slowly.