Cute Maria pictures on other blogs

Those of you reading this blog for Maria pictures (and you know you are), check out Jaime's blog entry titled Social Butterflies. Maria shows up near the end of the entry.

Little red wagon

My parents saw some wagons in Farm and Fleet, and thought Maria would enjoy having one. Rather than shipping one down, they sent us money, and we went to the Farm and Fleet here and bought one.

Behold, the wagon:

Run, Leo, run!

Disclaimer: Sue is visiting a friend in Seattle. All wardrobe decisions were made be Mark, and are solely his responsibility.

Facebook

I recently created a facebook account. If your a reader of this blog, and have a facebook account, search for me there. (I'm too lazy to create a link, and more importantly, I don't really want to - I want google to have to guess at the connection). If you don't have a facebook account, and don't know what it is - imagine the web redesigned by the marketing department (or at least the part of the marketing department responsible for collecting demographic information). And there's something about social networking (versus all the anti-social networking sites out there) Thoughts from short usage

• The CAPTCHA's required before creating a friend request are pretty inscrutable. I am even more firmly certain that the first Artificial Intelligence will arise as a result of spam/anti-spam escalating warfare. (Although, according to a recent Defcon talk, current CAPTCHA's aren't implemented as well as they could be, so the technology required to beat them is still not that sophisticated)
• The applications built on the platform are enticing, but what access do they provide to the personal data entered into the system? The developer TOS say the API doesn't allow access to contact info, but everything else is fair game. Hmmmm.

Food blog for local folks

For those readers in the Champaign-Urbana area who like to eat, check out this blog - Champaign Taste. It offers restaurant reviews and info on new places opening.