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I have a ton of stuff to blog about still, but no time right now. My wishlist: iPhone 3G, new Mac Book Pros, otherwise I’m sure I’ll love whatever I get ;) So here’s the link to the live WWDC keynote coverage I’ll be watching as much as possible (within work limitations):

http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/steve-jobs-keynote-live-from-wwdc-2008/

And the end result that most matters:

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_iphone/family/iphone?mco=MTE2NTQ

So today is “Super Tuesday” (and about a hundred other nicknames) where nearly half the country will vote in primaries to choose who they want to represent their political party for President in 2008. Since my high school days I have made some pretty drastic changes in my political positions, and I suppose I’ve made some pretty drastic changes in my political involvement as well.

Back in my days at Hurricane High School in good ol’ Hurricane, UT I was considered the “ultra-conservative.” I was called Adolf Haddox because of my strict positions regarding religion, the right to pray in school, my stance against abortion, and my firm opinion on pretty much everything towards the right. Where I could’ve once been called a neo-Republican there is very little that can describe me now. My political positions have changed some over time, but not drastically; however, because of September 11, 2001 the Republican party _has_ changed drastically.

We’ll come back to my politics in a minute, before I get much farther I did want to post a link to a really cool use of Google Map’s API that will show you twitters from people throughout the world on Super Tuesday, and once 8pm EST hits we will get real-time updates as to which candidates are winning the elections in which states - pretty dang spiffy. Check it out over at Google’s Super Tuesday Twitter Map thingy (for lack of a more clear title….)

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It’s been a long time coming, and I knew I couldn’t hold out for forever, but I finally broke down and got myself a decent dedicated server. I’ve done shared VPS and I’ve even done some good ol’ fashion home server management for the past year, but I came across a dedicated server deal I couldn’t resist and took the plunge. Look for (hopefully) better performance and page rendering out of my blog now that I’ve increased caching capabilities and minimized server overhead. Here’s some figures to compare my previous server (Mac Mini on my home network) to the new server (dedicated HiVelocity Server).

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It’s been since before our Christmas (on Christmas Eve) that I last blogged, guess I should do an update.

We had our family Christmas on the morning of Christmas Eve (since we’d be with family Christmas day in Utah). Anyway, here are some pictures of our Christmas tree & presents:

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Woot for FedEx overnight! I now hold in my hands a copy of OS X Leopard and it is starting to install in a matter of minutes. Apple’s website still lists another 7 hours and 25 minutes to launch from the time it arrived! WOOT.