TBW Daily Diary

Tyler Simmons will be six tomorrow . . . A massive power outage in the U.K. has knocked my streaming webcams off the Internet and has damaged equipment as well so there is no telling when they will be back on-line. I miss them already; never realized how much I count on them to entertain me . . . Other international communications systems were disrupted as well so don’t try to “tweet” your sister in Manchester just yet . . . A company in Belgium has the right idea, not that it will ever get implemented. They want to establish dot xxx (.xxx) to indicate porn sites on the Internet. Porn providers would register with them for a fee, some of which would then be contributed to agencies protecting children. It would simplify the search for porn sites (estimated at 50,000) for those so inclined. Even better, computers could be easily programmed to filter out such sites, thus protecting the youngsters at home . . . That all seems logical, but of course it will open another can of worms: some groups (indeed, some countries) will attempt to declare anything they disagree with “pornographic” . . . Our thanks to Jacquie Kirby Hensel; she was the first to “review” The Bare Wall on PennLive . . . JJ called Uncle Bob from the beach to say he was having fun but that the waves kept knocking him down . . .