Bunch of random thoughts here...kind of like a Link Post only much more commentary than usual, so...

Hmm...maybe I should think about taking a vacation: RP among National Geographic’s 25 travel destinations. Sounds like it would be pretty & relaxing & nice. Or maybe not take a vacation; not sure what I'd do there (yes, there's a reason to go, but I've got this stupid hang-up around needing to be invited over first (and I'm fairly certain at this point that that wont happen)).

Moving pictures of the typhoon disasters in RP (well, I found them moving at least; might be different if you're not sitting warm & dry in a recliner thousands of miles away...).

I'd forgotten about how much I liked Wire in the Blood until both Emil mentioned it, and Leverage-writer-guy blogged about it on the same night. Although for some reason that just made me want to watch Spooks again instead...

Interesting blog post about politics & economics. Not sure I fully agree with the post, but an interesting view nonetheless.

Fascinating reading about the Olson time zone database. No, seriously! It's not that boring! Okay, so given my penchant for regional settings, date formats, & other miscellaneous bits, I might be a bit biased. Go check it out & find out for yourself. (aside: examples of my wierdness: 24 hour clocks, clocks set to UTC, ISO8601 formatting (yes, I may even have multiple editions of the standard!), usage of Celsius, changing of currency formatting so the currency symbol is after the #, usage of the space as a number group separator, etc.)

Cool: instructions on how to get the Active Directory detection of TMG servers to work. Now I just need to upgrade Forefront TMG and implement this client feature...

Haven't watched this video series yet, but it was referred to me as a good introduction to functional programming.

Recommended UEFI-based Disk Partition Configurations: read that if setting up an EFI booting Windows system! It'll make things a lot easier.

And a sign that I've been dealing WAY too much with thermal/power management: first reaction to this comic was total confusion – which plate? the one reinforcing the heatsink mount? there's no thermal sensor/thermocouple there is there? maybe it's referring to part of the chassis? but that doesn't get hot? and why would I be being warned anyway...shouldn’t everything just safely throttle down?

Now playing: Joel Plaskett – Three (Disc 1) – 9 Run, Run, Run