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it’s late, er, early and i can’t sleep. time to do some writing instead, since i’ve been neglecting all of you out in reader land:firefox 2 beta 2 – mozilla firefox 2 is finally in a decently-stable beta form and 700 tech nerds spread out all over the bay area are rejoicing. in all honesty though, there are some nice things about the beta. for one, they finally got the closing of tabs right. also, subscribing to rss feeds is now a seamless user experience (big win). oh, and it looks nice. i’m still waiting for some really new sizeable innovations, but it’s a nice upgrade from firefox 1. and… now that i’ve written this, i’m not sure how it’s actually important to your life. but hey, it’s 4am so you should be happy you’re getting anything legible.moving again – i’m moving. again. it seems like i’ve spent the last six years of my life carting things around from place to place. you would think that doing so much moving would make me pack lightly, but you would be oh so wrong. somehow, such choice items as my dead ikea wall clock and a busted electric toothbrush have continued to make the cut every move. this time i’ll be taking residence in a nice 4-bedroom house in mountain view. each room has its own shade of nice new paint (i’m staring down the barrel of green, blue, or red) and there’s a quiet patio out back, perfect for barbeques. anyone who enjoys lifting heavy things should contact me soon .

financial nerdiness – i think one sign that you’ve become a personal finance nerd is if you actually think the following sentence to yourself when reviewing your new employer’s benefits: “oh sweet, we offer a roth 401(k). this is so fucking bomb.” note to self: describing a roth 401(k) as ‘fucking bomb’ is not only strange, but also probably inaccurate. i’m not sure where that tidbit was going, but hey, it’s 4:17am.

poker’s easy. sometimes. – i was playing in a 45-person sit-and-go to kill some time this afternoon, when i found 3d3h on the button with two limpers in front of me. i limped, the small blind called, and the big blind checked. as i looked back at the table a few seconds later, i did a double-take as i saw the flop 3c-2s-3s. yahtzee! but all four player checked to me. i tossed in a bet of about 1/4 of the pot to get the action going and had three callers. as i worried about how to get all of the money into the middle (we were pretty deep-stacked and i had all three players covered), the As rolled off on the turn, putting three spades on the board. before i even had a chance to act, the small blind pushed all-in (for about 3 times the pot), and the next two players also pushed all of their money into the pot. after i paused to make sure i wasn’t seeing things, i called and saw them flip over (in succession) KsQs, 2d2c, AdAc. amazing. sometimes poker’s so easy .

filed under ‘cool’: flickr geotagging – i know that it’s officially part of the enemy, but i’m still a flickr user. and, as a flickr user, i have to admit that i think the new ‘geo-tagging’ functionality is, for lack of a better word, ‘cool’. i just happen to hate the name (geo-tagging? can’t there be a better name than that?). i’d tell you what it is, but maybe it’s easier to just show you my photo map. note that not all my photos are geo-tagged yet, but i think it’s pretty neat anyway. it’s not going to change anybody’s life, but (as you all know) i love visualizing information in clever ways. this would qualify.

australia, here i come! – and i’ll leave you with this sobering news article. yes, i am actually going to be in port douglas in, oh, about three weeks. really good for the worry-meter there…