it's 5am and I'm at Logan. I no longer own a pocketknife, because I didn't remember to leave it at home. Good thng I didn't have anything important on that USB key ( Read more... )

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I upgraded my iPhone software today, and downloaded a bunch of apps. People are doing some really cool and exciting stuff with this platform - there's a lot of location-aware apps for all sorts of different things. Social networking, photoblogging, and finding nearby places are some of the ones I grabbed so far ( Read more... )

So, Obama has decided that wiretapping is OK after all. I can't say I'm surprised.

In older but scarier news, the Bush administration wants to be pardoned for war crimes dating back to 2001. How, in any sane world, does that allow you to stay in office ( Read more... )

So there's a rally in D.C. next Saturday, with Ron Paul as the keynote speaker. I just got plane tickets to head down for the day. I may in fact be insane for doing this - my flight leaves Boston at 6am, and I'll be back around midnight. This is also costing me a good chunk of money, and who knows what I'll be able to find to eat that's gluten-free ( Read more... )

Woot! Blizzard made the announcement yesterday - there's a gameplay video at the following link. It's about 20 minutes long and does a good job of showing off the new engine. Nothing about a release date yet - from what I can tell they're only just far enough along in their development to do the demo video. Still, I'm really excited ( Read more... )

The average person in America doesn't know where the current crop of problems this country faces originated. They think they do, but they don't. Moreover, they don't care - they're perfectly happy to be told what to think by people 'better qualified' than them to know such things ( Read more... )

I have a lot of things I wanted to post about, but not as much time as I'd like. So I'm going to give the overview, and maybe I'll follow this up with more detail later. Edit - yeah, that mostly worked. I'm not so good at skipping detail sometimes.

Books: I just finished Cauldron by Jack McDevitt, the last of the 6 books in his Academy of Science ( Read more... )

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