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Even though I’m totally up to date with the software engine that runs this blog, I’m way behind on blog posts themselves. Surely there’s more interesting things to report than this!

I found this “cool morphing site”:1 on digg.com today. You upload your photo, and a java applet morphs your image in various ways. Here I am morphed to a Manga cartoon and an El Greco painting: It’s like Sunday morning comics! [1]http://www.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~morph/Transformer/

On a whim, Robin and I rented the first DVD for the TV series _Lost_ a couple weeks ago. We were hooked in the first five minutes, and had to restrain ourselves to make the first season last a whole two weeks. But what to do about the second season? It won’t be released on [...]

Successfully upgraded the blog to WordPress 2.02 this morning, it only took about ten minutes. Only glitch was a problem where the weather plugin has a problem updating its cache file; commenting out the cache update code solved that problem. Anyway, this version is supposed to be more secure and even run a bit faster, [...]

MacZOT.com Fans want Pzizz because ‘According to the National Sleep Foundation, sleep deprivation and its effect on work performance may be costing U.S. employers some $18 billion each year in lost productivity. Another study pushes this cost to over $100 billion.’ – _link to full article_