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So I read Wired magazine.  I'm not proud of it, but I read it pretty much cover to cover every month.  It comes to my apartment for a paltry $12 per year and the understanding that I will submit myself to a magazine chock full of adds and stories about ads.  I like shiny things and Wired fits perfectly in my plexi-glass bathroom magazine rack, its only stop between my mailbox and recycling.

its time to begin again.  writing about writing can help writing, right?  and its just to cruel to post such things on facebook.  plus, i'd rather spiel about dissertation writing for a few paragraphs instead of a few sentences.  the last year of this thing begins now: year six.  2010 is upon us very shortly and since i titled this 'disserter 2010' three years ago, i've got to stick to it.

OSCON is no Comic-Con, which is happening concurrently to OSCON in San Diego, but I knew this going in.  Still, its pretty fun so far, full of interesting people wearing "genius by birth, slacker by choice," Firefox and even quite a few Ubuntu tee-shirts instead of Chewbacca costumes.  Monday and Tuesday are the slow days--the expo floor is closed and most people who registered for "sessions only" like me only come Wednesday-Friday.  Comic-Con is part of the reason I decided to study F/OSS convention; I am very curious if F/OSS convent

This is the new version of my old research blog, all shiny and new and running on drupal.  Why drupal?  (Drupal is a f/oss content management system that can be used for really complicated stuff like mtv.co.uk or this simple site) Why not one of the many, very nice, easy to use hosted softwares out there like blogger or wordpress or something?  Why did I waste all sorts of time trying to learn drupal, failing to understand .css, and