Just read about this…City of Durham has enacted ‘Stage III Moderate Mandatory Conservation of the City of Durham’s Water Conservation Ordinance’ effective today. While the goal remains to reduce water consumption by about 30% in light of the current drought conditions, the thing that surprised me for a bit was the following restriction:
‘Do not serve water in a restaurant or similar establishment except upon request’
Talk about a drought!

I just realized that I have completely transitioned myself out of using any sort of free email service (Gmail, Hotmail, etc.). One of the lures of free email used to be the cost associated with getting our own domain, along with hosting services, but thanks to mass consumer adoption and services like Google Apps for Domains, that no longer holds true.
If I am scared of spam, I just create a temporary email address on my domain; if I am scared of running out of storage, well, Google provides 2 GB!
Apart …

Posting this from my new iPhone, and have to say that I am pretty impressed!

I was thinking how much things have changed in the last 10 years. We now live in an increasingly connected society, at least from a technological point of view. Yet, at the same time, there are things that haven’t changed at all. We still have the middle east crisis. We’re still fighting hunger and poverty, and we’re still in search of a new source of energy!
10 years ago:

I was trying to get in a good college.
My primary computer was a desktop PC running Windows 95. The processor was 66Mhz Pentium.
I …

I got rid of my leg cast yesterday. The good news is that the lesion was not malignant. Even though the cast is gone, I still have about half of my sutures still remaining, and am avoiding putting force on the incision area, which means no driving for yet another week.
Now, I got a chance to look at my toe for the very first time post-surgery, and I almost had an upset stomach. Basically, I was wrong when I mentioned that the incision was only 2cm long. It was actually …