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So, how are you all doing at this crux in time?

that is to say, despite my erroneous post a month or two ago, Karl Rove will not be indicted in the Valerie Plame case, as reported by Excite.

So at least my question is answered, although my original reference for the indictment question was a) very unreliable and b) jumping the gun in any case, even if they had a shred of fact to report.

Jerry’s version is a pretty good rendition.

By the way, when I mean I like the slow version, I mean really slow. My favorite version is over 8 minutes long and makes me wonder how slow Canon in D was originally meant to be played.

in a sophomoric kind of way. I thought it was hilarious, but then, it doesn’t take much to amuse me.

Karl Rove has apparently been indicted?

OK–some of you have heard this, but I feel compelled to tell the rest of you…

We bought slightly oversized sneakers for Drew (six years old now!) last spring, thinking that he’d grow into them. Now, the sneakers are practically worn out, and they still don’t quite fit.

So, one day after playtime he told us that his feet hurt. He took off his shoes and socks and showed us toes that were rubbed raw. We were a bit shocked. It was definitely time to get him new sneakers, and ones that fit this time!

But that would be a few days away. The next day, Drew went on a field trip with his class at school. His teacher noticed that he was lagging behind the other children and asked him what was up.

“My feet hurt,” Drew said. So his teacher took off a sneaker and a sock, and saw the raw toes. She felt so badly for him that she immediately got some band aids for his little toes. I felt terrible when I heard about this–I mean, what kind of parent am I to let this serious situation slide?

Until she told us the rest of the story.

Suddenly suspicious, she asked Drew to take off his sneakers. As she shook them, out came a small rock from each piece of footwear. She asked Drew the obvious question. His answer?

“Oh, don’t take those out! Those are my lucky rocks!”

And that is the magic that is my son Drew.

Two minutes and twenty eight seconds of just plain fun. Click here.

Remastered, even.
The world is good.

I’m trying Second Life after hearing about it on the latest TWITcast.

I’m sure I’ll regret it.

My Second Life name is Mick Tandino, if you’re interested.

I’m not sure why people just wouldn’t live in the real world instead of spending money to live in a virtual world. Strange.

Well, you’ve all heard that Apple now makes Macs with Intel chips. You’ve all heard that yesterday Apple unveiled a new technology to let their Macs boot between Windows XP and Mac OS X, right?

Well, you haven’t heard anything yet.

Via Engadget:

Now that Apple’s Boot Camp is in the wild, there’s very little to be said about booting into alternate operating systems on the Mac, right? Wrong! Because, not surprisingly, no sooner did Apple take the wraps off its little 30th birthday suprise, than Mac owners (or non-Mac owners who could cajole friends into lending them their Macs for a spell) began to put the Apple boot manager through its paces. And they’ve found out quite a few interesting things, including:

• Boot Camp can load Vista. Or at least the Vista installer. Marc Orchant at ZDNet is one of those using a borrowed MacBookPro, and he was able to load the Vista installer with no problem. Alas, his lender insisted on doing a full backup before allowing Orchant to go any further, so we have yet to see whether a full Vista install is possible — though we remain optimistic.
• Boot Camp can load Linux. Or at least a Linux installer. Torifile at applenova.com also got cold feet, and aborted an Ubuntu install after confirming that the setup loaded and was able to recognize a keyboard and other hardware.
• International editions of Windows will work with Boot Camp. This should come as no surprise, but with a beta product that’s designed to do something that isn’t supposed to work, you never know. But the PC Watch team in Japan wasted no time and installed the Japanese
  version of XP Pro without a hitch.
• Boot Camp can load Windows XP Media Center Edition. Now the Mac mini really is a media PC!
• Third parties are already filling in some of the gaps. With a basic Boot Camp setup, you can’t access your Mac OS X partition from your Windows XP partition. However, MediaFour’s MacDrive software solves that problem. Now you can boot into Windows and read and write to your Mac partition, which could allow you to have common settings files for some cross-platform apps. Whether or not it will also allow you to share your iTunes library between partitions remains to be seen.
• You can boot from external drives, even though Boot Camp’s installer won’t allow you to set it up. Actually, that may not be true. However, you can create external boot disks using narf and blanka’s boot manager (see, there’s still a use for it!). And we’re pretty confident that someone will find a way to do so within Boot Camp as well very quickly.