Things are . . . happening. Bad things. September 11 I thought about blogging on September 11, but I couldn’t think of anything new to say. That’s sad. Seven years, and nothing has gotten better. Nothing tall and shining has risen from Lower Manhattan except the same phantom lights that are dragged out every year to stand in for real honor. Politicians putting on a show, so they look like they’re doing something mean­ingful. The day has become a joke. An oppor­tunity for public displays of affected grief, vapid speeches about “never forget[ting]”, and other political grand­standing. What the politi­cians and the bureau­crats and the local [ . . . ]

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I have jumped on the weensy netbook bandwagon and purchased an ASUS Eee PC 901. It is teensy and black and is running a spare XP license I had left over from when I upgraded my now massive by comparison laptop to Vista. It is wonderful! It is quick, small, and lasts upwards of 8 hours on a charge. With the wireless on, even! I’m using it primarily for class — taking notes and pulling up materials on Westlaw and Lexis. I’m also using it for email and my calendar, courtesy of (get this!) Office 2007, which runs surpris­ingly smoothly on the tiny SSD hard [ . . . ]

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