Dear World,

The United States of America, your quality supplier of ideals of liberty and democracy, would like to apologize for its 2001-2008 service outage.

The technical fault that led to this eight-year service interruption has been located, and the parts responsible for it were replaced Tuesday night, November 4. Early tests of the newly- installed equipment indicate that it is functioning correctly, and we expect it to be fully functional by mid-January.

We apologize for any inconvenience caused by the outage, and we look forward to resuming full service -- and hopefully even to improving it in years to come.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

The USA

People, this is not a once in a lifetime event. There will be another in 4 years, and 4 years after that, and 4 years...

Well, I've read Final Crisis 6. Still don't believe it. Pretty interesting to see what they do after this.

In cafeteria right now and hearing a jazzy Muzak version of the "Get Smart" theme. Very bizzare.

Initial Win7 thoughts - not too shabby given this is a Beta OS & I have no apps installed. PowerShell 2 native!

Woo-hoo! That was a fun quake. Initial estimate - 4.9 located 1 mi. south of San Bernardino

So now that Twitter pages are being hacked via phishing scams, I wonder how long before our Information Security group kills access to twitter.com...

Since others are posting this as well, this may be a duplicate of what you have already seen.

http://valleywag.gawker.com/5124184/the-russian-bear-slashes-a-social-network

I'll be honest - I've been contemplating dropping LiveJournal for Facebook for any updates, and perhaps starting a specialized blog off my domain for technical things.

Off to see Terry Fator at Morongo Resort. It should be a great show (again).

Tonight's Rockapella show canceled due to weather/travel conditions. :(

Does anyone else feel like Wham!'s "Last Christmas" was written by George Michael about Andrew Ridgley? *pause* Just me? *pause* Oh.

Now I know: NASA likely to give away space shuttles. http://ping.fm/YcPM5

Remember - if you use Windows and Internet Explorer, you should be applying the new security update that came out today.

Microsoft releasing out-of band (read: CRITICAL) security update Wednesday to address Internet Explorer issue. http://ping.fm/O4Nia

I need to go home and start making French Onion Soup for tomorrow's Soup and Love party!

Just got back from the dr. office. It's either vertigo or high blood pressure. I have blood test on Saturday and pills for dizziness.

Vertigo - it's like being tipsy, but without the enjoyable side benefits of feeling good and releasing inhibitions. Woo. (wait for it) Hoo.

Just completed the Fluxx game from Hades. There were literally 12 New Rules cards in play at one time. Pandora's box is evil. Just saying.

5.5 earthquake out in the Mojave Desert. Felt a little roll here. Woo. Hoo. http://ping.fm/2POQv

Well, I knew it would happen eventually. Work blocked access to
Facebook. (But I can update remotely through other means! SHH!)