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I found myself impressed at this New York Times slide show. If the captions are to be believed (and the looks on the soldiers' faces show no reason to doubt them) the photographer was standing in the middle of one tense situation after another, sometimes in an all-out firefight. I guess there's nothing new here, but the nowness of these war photographs, maybe the first of their caliber taken during my lifetime (I don't recall images like this from GWI), makes them more striking to me.

Listened to NPR all day, which meant that I listened to BBC all day. Didn't work me up into Lileksian levels of frothing spite, but still winced at a lot of it. One BBC commentator basically said that the loss of a Coalition supply convoy to an enemy ambush showed that the whole war had lost direction.?!

I really should have gotten out of the house today, but instead I did these things:

• Civ (It is probably time to bring the disc to work and leave it there, again)


• BrainDump (Still trying to grok Drag & Drop; got a little farther, miles to go yet)


• HTS Manager (Sunk hours into hunting down an huge memory leak, because having Apache increase in size by 13MB every time you load a page is bad. Still have not found the leak but I think I'm close. Stopping now before I fall down.)

Note to self: Visit the Hahvahd pooter store and buy a copy of Photoshop. Tomorrow I must return to Micro Center a box that says "Photoshop" on it, which I bought last month for what seemed like a super bargain; oops, they put the price tag over the word "Upgrade". Muted trumpet noise: bla blaa.