Surgery plus five days

Just checked the remaining dressing on my knee.  I conclude that leaving it open without a dressing at all for most of yesterday was the right thing to do, because the upper suture that was still bleeding slightly yesterday did not bleed at all yesterday evening or last night; the gauze sponge was clean when I took it off.  Right now, it's a little swollen again after having the Ace wrap off for several hours; as soon as I get lunch for the smalls, I need to go lie down for a while.

Progress continues.  The sutures still itch, though, and anything that torques my knee axially hurts.

Quick time, slow time

So, you start up your browser, and QuickTime says it has a crucial upgrade.  It tells you that QuickTime 7.1 contains a new H.264 codec (there's the carrot) and an important security fix (there's the stick).

"But wait," you think.  "QuickTime and iTunes are bundled together now.  I can't upgrade QuickTime without being forced to install iTunes, and I don't *&$*#^#$# WANT to install &#*$#%% iTunes."

Well, hey, guess what!  Steve Jobs listened!  Now you can get a standalone QuickTime installer again that doesn't bundle iTunes.  It's theoretically existed before, but you couldn't get to it because of link loops on the site, and then in 7.0 it apparently went away altogether.  In 7.1, it's back, and accessible.

Find it here, for either Mac OSX 10.3.9 or later, or Windows 2000/XP.

Interesting events around El Al and the TSA

As schneier reports, El Al has already been doing their own baggage screening at four US airports -- JFK, LAX, Miami International, and O'Hare -- and now they want to add Newark to that list.

I wonder if this is possibly what spurred the TSA to start a pilot program to do passenger screening the Israeli way, which is to say, looking for -- dare I say it -- terrorists instead of for overlooked toenail clippers?