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I'm still slowly working my way through the England trip. In current events, Rachel and I saw Avenue Q last night. It was probably the best Broadway musical I've seen in Portland to date. Highly recommended.

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Pictures from our trip are up . I'll probably go back and place images to fit the earlier posts later on.

We arrived in England's Heathrow airport around 8:30 PM local time. It seemed like we were the only international flight to come in at that time, which was nice for customs. As Simon is a British citizen, he got in their line. He was the only one in that line. After a short while, Kate, Rachel and I got up to the desk and got to watch Simon ( Read more... )

I meant to try and write these up as we were going along. However, I decided it was more fun to hang out with folks than blog while on vacation ( Read more... )

There has been plenty of media coverage of Grand Theft Auto IV. For the most part I disregard the fear mongering "what about The Children" arguments and move on with my life, thinking that The Parents of The Children should be involved in The Children's lives ( Read more... )

I really shouldn't take the time to write this, but whatever. My brain explodes enough today ( Read more... )

I grabbed Audiosurf from Steam last week because it sounded fantastic and was $9. And it just became cooler than I had originally thought.

Audiosurf scoreboard alert - Dethroned!You used to have the worldwide best score for: one world one sky by covenant ( Read more... )

Schneier on Security vs. Privacy
Since 9/11, approximately three things have potentially improved airline security: reinforcing the cockpit doors, passengers realizing they have to fight back and -- possibly -- sky marshals. Everything else -- all the security measures that affect privacy -- is just security theater and a waste of effort.