So, perhaps in consonance with my earlier outburst of the holiday spirit, while eating dinner with myself, Garry and Marc at an expensive restaurant, Alexis and Assar had their house broken into. Their cats are all right, they should be adequately insured. Now they just have to get over their sense of violation.
Of course, you probably have one question: how was the food? Very good, although I wasn't paying attention and probably consumed my year's allowance of cream and other dairy fat, as well as my food budget for the rest of the week.
Anyhow, I suppose that's one advantage of living in a house with lots of loosely affiliated people with desperately random sleep schedules. Which is my clumsy segue into the USB alarm clock (via Gizmodo) I think I want one, if only to encourage companies that are busy hooking everything with a microcontroller in it to a USB port. Of course, I wonder if you can set the time from the computer? :-)
The other link I want to drop is an article from Security Focus about a guy that stole a copy of a huge consumer information database. People are worrying these days about identity theft near as much as the real sorts of them mentioned above, and don't stop to consider that someone in general doesn't need to come in contact with you at all to obtain that sort of information.
