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Scary Thunderstorm

So did anyone else notice a HUGE thunderstorm roll through the central valley last night?

Wow. That was one of the most violent storms I have ever seen, like something from the mid west. Lightening streaking across the sky horizontally, and vertically every few seconds, and the rain! Wow, I did not know it could rain like that in the valley.

My poor dog was stuck outside for a little while, and boy was he pleased to see me when I got back to the house.

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Web site redirect for small town mayoral candidates

Unknown person pulls Wooten-Osorio site switcheroo:

Mayor Ellie Wooten fell victim to cyber sabotage Friday.

Ellie Wooten is the mayor of my little town, and it appears that she has incompetent or just lazy tech staff. Her website is “www.ellieformayor.org”, but her staff did not register the .com version.

Erm, thats a web 101 people. Anyway, somebody made the .com redirect to her opponent’s website. Nice… Of course, being a small town, each of the mayoral candidates started throwing mud 🙂 How very sad.

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California Wildfires

At a lunch I attended today Scott McNealy (CEO Sun Microsystems) listed his top 10 things to do with California. I think it was number 7 which caught my attention: Earthquakes, Mudslides and Wildfires.

Of course that is particuar pertinent at the present when so many wildfires are raging in southern California.

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Steve announces Iphone SDK due in February

Steve Jobs has announced on the Apple Website that there will be a iphone Software Development Kit sometime early next year.

This has justified my willingness to jump into the iphone pool without knowing about the future of 3rd party applications. The release of the SDK will mean that we can expect some amazing things for the future of the iphone… The geeky brit is excited!

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