Yesterday’s awful weather mercifully turned into thunder and rain. And my cold is almost gone, after a long day in bed.
Raphael Nicolaj Spernau was born yesterday. Welcome to the world!
For a less than knee-jerk response to XBox, Microsoft’s attempt to take over console gaming, read this Salon story. Link via Justin Hall.
I enjoy making phone-calls to invite friends to my birthday party. In fact, I enjoy them so much it’s almost impossible to move on to the next call. If I haven’t called you yet, that’s why.
Everyone who was invited last year is welcome this year, too.
And any regular reader of this page who happens to be in Stockholm is welcome, too – just mail me.
Susan Kitchens (who recently visited Panama) links to: Panama wants to stay out of drugwar.
The old American habit of treating soverign countries as colonies never goes out of fashion – remember all those people CIA helped killing and torturing in Guatemala?