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A friend from Guatemala was telling me about the crazy storms that are going on down there. He showed me an article from msnbc (here) that contained a picture of this:

I like how a massive hole swallowed up an entire 3 story building and they don’t really give any details.  Where are the people that were in that building?  How deep is that hole?  What’s down there?  Nope, just details about the storm and a “hey, by the way, look at this hole.”

This picture isn’t some kind of joke made in poor taste, right?

If you’ve been paying attention to the oil spill crisis in the gulf, you know about the ‘top kill’ method they are considering to stop the oil leak.

Here’s a graphical explanation of how top kill works:

Last I heard, they just gave the approval to proceed – cross your fingers!

Does anybody else think it’s plain ridiculous that companies are allowed to create these spewing oil wells without having some sort of fail-safe?  And a fail-safe for that fail-safe?  And a fail-safe for that one too?  Considering the potential disaster of a leak, plan your fail-safes accordingly!

If you think about it, so much of our everyday life is wired into some kind of network – street lights, phones, credit card authorization, ATMs, electricity, our military defenses.  What DON’T we use on a daily basis that doesn’t involve a network or the internet?  Hmm… I can’t think of a single thing.  Even the water I use to is electronically controlled via a network somewhere down the line.  I can’t even take a dump without computers!

I’ve been hearing a lot about cyber warfare in the news as of late.  That is really scary when you think about all the things that can affect us if somebody launched an attack on our networks.  What makes it scarier is that hackers can do their job and get out without their location being accurately traced.  A group of nerds hanging out in their bedrooms can send the USA back to the stone ages with a few keyboard strokes!  And we won’t even know who did it.

Maybe I should write a script for one of those end of the world movies except use cyber warfare as the culprit instead of nuclear warfare.  Then I can sell it and take all the money and just move to Hawaii.  I’ll live off of coconuts and pineapples!

If you want to read more, there’s a lot of articles recently on this topic at NPR’s website.

Love these shoes… I just don’t think I’m cool enough to wear them.

I had some hawaiian food last night and it’s 12 hours later… why do I still feel full?  Gross….