New Years

I'll be away from Japan until the first week of next year, visiting family back home. I guess the Japanese government will finally get their hands on my fingerprints (and God knows what else) for their anti-terror files. I signed a petition against this mandatory scanning of foreign devils residents, but I guess PM Fukuda has more important stuff like golf-playing defence ministers to worry about (as opposed to "trivial" issues such as civil liberties).