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This is an interesting and chilling story. Makes me want to read/write/think about the potential impact of cybercrime some more... Updated: 1108p 5.29.2008

Chicago 5/18/2008 Photos from a recent trip to Chicago. This was my first time there, and I like it!

I read this in the Taipei Times. ***** Could it be the economy, stupid? By Gerrit van der Wees Tuesday, May 13, 2008, Page 8 Back in 1992, then-US Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton hammered away at his opponent — incumbent president George H.W. Bush — by saying his administration was to blame for the downturn in the economy. “It’s the economy, stupid” became a catchphrase. Bush Sr, who had an approval rating of 90 percent the previous year because of his successes in handling the end of the Cold War and the Gulf War, lost the election. This year in Taiwan, presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) used very much the same tactic against the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government. However, in Taiwan there were some significant differences. First, President Chen Shui-bian’s (陳水扁) administration was already in the doldrums for other than economic reasons and it was difficult for DPP candidate Frank Hsieh (謝長廷) to distance himself from the sitting administration. Second,

Here's a riddle I found here , supposedly attributed to Albert Einstein. There is a solution, if you can't figure it out, ask me! There are 5 houses in a row, and in five different colors. In each house lives a person from a different country. Each person drinks a certain drink, plays a certain game, and keeps a certain pet. No two people drink the same drink, play the same game or have the same pet. The British lives in a red house. The Swedish keeps dogs. The Danish drinks tea. The green house is on the left of the white house. The green house owner drinks coffee. The person who plays tennis rears birds. The owner of the yellow house plays chess. The man living in the house right in the center drinks milk. The Norwegian lives in the first house. The man who plays poker lives next to the man who keeps cats. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who plays chess. The man who plays billiards drinks lemonade. The German plays golf. The Norwegian lives next to the blue ho

I took a step towards a greener future by biking to lab today. Here's the route I took. It's four miles, which took roughly 25 minutes. I think I like it. View Larger Map On another note, tomorrow is the NC primaries. After much deliberation with myself, I've decided to vote Obama! I want to make clear that I am not now a "believer." Earlier in the year, I had leaned towards Clinton. This was for several reasons. 1) I reasoned that given the history of the US, the gender barrier seemed a much harder hurdle than the racial (in this case, black vs. white) barrier. Consider for example, that black men could vote before white women. This speaks a lot of the psychology of the "majority"; their guilt over slavery moved them to grant blacks some rights, but they never for once considered the rights of women until the suffrage movement. I also just think that a less testosterone fueled White House would do America some good. 2) I still think Clinton has a better