Hi all, from our flat in Kiev, Ukraine! Our flat is right about the middle of this map, on Zhytomers'ka. We're about a 15 min. walk to the main Independence Square downtown.

Well, I've been pretty quiet lately, especially given the momentous process |Jodi| and I are in the middle of. It's now T-2 days until Jodi and I get on a plane bound for London, then to Kiev, Ukraine, to find and adopt our first child! Remarkably, I'm not stressed too much. If you've not been following along, have a browse through Jodi's Adoption Week-by-week posts to catch up. This has been a crazy year, but we have been surrounded by friends and family who have been simply amazing - the level of emotional, spiritual, and financial support has blown us away. Our child will be brought into an environment that is primed and ready for him/her! God is so good!

I'm a total sucker for song covers. I've suffered this affliction for years, but it's only been since discovering various... *ahem* alternative *ahem*... sources of music ^[1(#f1) that I've been able to fully enjoy my addiction.

|Jodi| and I went to see Spielberg's new movie, War of the Worlds last night. I wasn't sure what to expect, and had tried to stay away from spoiler sites (which are generally a guilty pleasure of mine). I read the original novel by H. G. Wells in an anthology I got as a kid, and also had heard the Orson Welles 'Mercury Theater on the Air' broadcast on cassette tape as a teen. Speilberg's vision borrows from both, and exudes the hopelessness and desperation that Orson Welles' interpretation captured so brilliantly.

Today is my 34^th birthday. Yay! :-)

I've updated WordPress on this site to 1.5.1.2, and SpamKarma to version 2b9. I'm re-enabling comments for non-registered users, and opened up trackbacks again.

Jon, Micah, and I went to see Batman Begins on Wednesday. It was great.

Jim Roepcke took me to task for my previous comment about dual-booting an Intel-based Mac with Windows. I said:

I think that blogging apps are the new hello world.

Chatting with Cam Barrett, he brought up a point I had not thought of... He postulates that by switching to Intel CPUs, |Apple| could be the only computer maker to be able to offer hardware that could dual-boot Mac OS X / Windows. Eeeeenteresting. Would make my life easier as a developer.

Oh cool! Apple has open sourced the complete WebKit underpinning the Safari web browser.

Picking up the pieces: John Siracusa mourns the Power PC:

|Dave Winer| said he was going to have an exclusive after the SteveNote.

|Jodi| and I are re-reading the Chronicles of Narnia for the nth time. In preparation, of course, for Dec 9th.

Like the rest of the Apple/Mac world, I'm waiting for the WWDC SteveNote. What will His Steveness, Dark Lord of the Black Turtleneck unveil? How many Bothans have died to bring us the Apple/Intel rumors? Will the sacrifice be in vain?

So I'm driving to work this morning and I realize that I'm missing my weblog! In the last month I've posted 6 times, and that's simply lousy. Posting here used to be a three-times-daily prescription, and I think I need to get my prescription refilled.

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