It would appear that some people are in serious need of more education on using the Internet.

While Danger Room reports that the Air Force Blocks Access to Many Blogs [including this one], according to the BBC they haven’t done a very good job convincing people not to send US airbase e-mails to town web site. Just a minor thing, but all official Air Force web sites and e-mail addresses end in .af.mil, not .com, and classified information is required to be sent via official communication links, not the Internet.

Speaking of education, if you have made up your mind to send annoying comments to a blog, you might consider not using the computers at your school. The thing is, it is easy to identify you and a complaint to the school would, at a minimum, cost you access to the school’s computers, which you really might need in some courses. If you want to be annoying, you should study the Internet in greater depth so that it takes more than a visit to a single reference site to find out who you are.

The Anchorage Daily News has a nice piece on the back of the race about Kim Franklin (79) the rookie from Cottered, England currently in 92^nd place. She figures this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and is taking her time to enjoy the trail. But Trent Herbst (85) of Homer, Alaska in 94^th place, was fooled by markers leading to a local cabin and lost hours of trail time before he discovered his mistake.

Current standings:

1 Lance Mackey (6)
2 Hugh Neff (16)
3 Jeff King (11)
4 Mitch Seavey (33)
5 Cim Smyth (2)
6 Ramey Smyth (48)
7 Kjetil Backen (42)
8 Zack Steer (26)
9 Gerry Willomitzer (7)
10 Paul Gebhardt (69)

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