While poking around for blogs reporting on the tsunami, I came across Mr. Brown‘s in Singapore. He reports that the police called a friend to say that they’d caught the guy who stole his anonymous cashcard. Except the friend hadn’t reported the card lost. Mr. Brown figures that the police triangulated against the transponder in the friend’s car. He writes:

I don’t know whether to be happy we have an efficient police force that can return your stolen goods to you even if you did not make a police report, or be terrified at the thought that nothing escapes the Eye of Sauron.

I’ve been poking around Mr. Brown’s site. There’s a whole bunch of good writing there – technological but also personal and even intimate, without being overwhelming. Here’s a piece about his autistic daughter. And here’s a translation of a short story that’s being circulated in Chinese.

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