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I’ll start off this post by saying the letter “E” on my keyboard is malfunctioning, which is annoying as hll hll hll all fuck. Talk about pissing m off. About every third E I type doesn’t show and I have to go back and strike the key HARD. Hey that’s better, I’ll just type harder.

Anyway, the story circulating the intertubes about the mystery chinese iPhone worker girl got me thinking about internet fashions that flash around overnight and die off as quickly, it reminds me of flocks of birds or schools of fish that fly (or dart, as the case may be) in new directions seemingly as one organism. These displays of group behavior have always fascinated me (probably because when the group veers right I tend to drift left). Well, so long as the model doesn’t begin to mimic the behavior of lemmings it’s all harmless fun I suppose (although now that I think about it if a few groups were to jump off cliffs it wouldn’t be so bad).

But the iPhone story is great, and I hope for her sake the evil overlords in management don’t fire her (actually, if anyone should be shit-canned, it should be the nutsack who took the pictures and forgot to delete them IMNSHO). This picture came from Wired.com - where there are more and bigger pics, and more on the story:

My old friend Mike Winchester sent me an email today, and proved his intelligence once again by cracking the secret code. Good job Mike, you’re the first! I am forced to assume the rest of the readers here are either apathetic or stupid (probably about a 60/40 split heh). Remember fools, x=4.

Anyway, it was great to here from Mike again he was one of my best friends when we were classmates at that superb institute of education Pacific High School. Which reminds me, the class of 83 25 year reunion is coming up and I haven’t yet decided whether I’ll go or not (I did not attend any of previous ones). So is anybody who reads this blog going? Drop me a line and let me know - if enough of my friends go I guess I’ll go too - we can sit in back, get drunk and laugh at everybody who got fat - wait, that’s what we did in high school.

Matt Brotherson wrote a nice plugin that uses weather.com’s XML web service to display local weather called WP-Weather Manager - it’s very cool and easy, and I have it in the News/Weather section of my links page if you want to chex it out. Nice job, Matt!

BTW if your wondering about the long period of silence from me, I’ll be sending out a newsletter and posting info soon - it really boils down to being extremely busy, but more on that later