I'm not going to say anything here that hasn't been said by hundreds of people long before this, but it will make me feel just a little better to say it.  In my own, expletive-prone fashion.  Those of you with delicate sensibilities may want to turn away from the screen for a couple minutes.  I've been using Foxit Reader for quite some time now, years in fact.  It's small, light, unobtrusive, and just fucking works.  In other words, everything Adobe Acrobat is not. Somewhere between version 5.0 of Adobe Acrobat (15 megs) and the current version 8.x (holy Jesus 167 fucking megs...

You heard me.  HD-DVD. I know what you're thinking:  “Dude, the format war is over.  And HD-DVD lost.” Yeah.  I know. Thing is, I bought a new-hotness 1080p plasma for my OKC house a couple months back, and was driving it with an old-and-busted 720p DVD player that I bought about 6 years ago. I'm not convinced Blu-Ray is worth the premium they are charging (prices went up recently, in fact), but I wanted 1080p performance.  The Toshiba HD-DVD's 1080p upconverting has always been well regarded, and when the local electronics outlets started their fire sales on HD-DVD gear, it seemed like a good time...

I have updated the Conferences list on the right-hand nav frame to just list the 2 conferences on my schedule for this year, both happening in April, as luck would have it. Speaking of RSA: I've received an invitation to attend the 2nd annual Security Bloggers Meetup during the RSA show.  There may have been a little whining on my part immediately preceding the invite, I can't be responsible for remembering the exact sequence of events.  The important thing, I think you'll all agree, is that I'll be there.