Romney rules!

Today, presidential candidate Mitt Romney gave his "famous" speech entitled "Faith in America." I was dubious about the necessity of this speech, fearing that it would cause more people to start bashing my beliefs, which is never pleasant. However, after watching the speech, I came away being very impressed by Romney. The man has basically said that it is important to him to stand true to his values than to win the election, and what he had to say about separation of church and state is precisely how I feel about the subject.
Separation of church and state, to me, means that the government shall impose no religion upon its people. It has _never_ meant that we, the people, cannot make laws based on ours beliefs (such as banning gay marriage) or that God can never be mentioned in public (including praying in public). I've always thought that those people who spent so much time trying to remove prayer from schools were being a bit selfish; if the majority of people believe in a Supreme Being, then it is completely appropriate to have some kind of prayer to this being in a public forum.
In short, I've gained a tremendous amount of respect for Romney, and I will most likely be voting for him if I get the opportunity.

Seagate Nailed! Other HD manufacturers to follow?

If you're like me, you've been annoyed by the way that hard drive manufacturers represent their storage capacity. Basically, 1 GB on a hard drive means 1 billion bytes, but in almost every other context of which I am aware, 1 GB actually means 1024 cubed, which is 1073741824 bytes. Obviously, HD manufacturers want to use the "base 10" system instead of the "base 2" system to advertise their stuff, because it means they can say that they offer more capacity than they actually do.

Well, Seagate finally got nailed. I am hoping this means that all HD manufacturers everywhere will start being honest from now on. If I buy a 500GB drive, I want it to have 500*1024*1024*1024 bytes, dangit!

California Extreme 2007

I just was at California Extreme 2007 (http://www.caextreme.org) this past weekend and I got some video of the occasion:

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