Burma / Myanmar

I am amazed at the courage of these people, monks and citizens, who stand up to murderers with guns, demanding their freedom.

It encourages me that people will not put up with indignity and totalitarianism forever. Even facing death, they confront power.

I hope there will be a miracle and somehow the bloodshed will end with freedom for everyone there. But this seems unlikely.

(The picture of the monk is taken from Flickr user, honey-bee's collection. The original is available here. It and this edited version are distributed under the Creative Commons attribution license. The author of the original photo has made it available to anyone under the terms of that license, thus my use of it should not be seen as any sort of endorsement by that author of my opinions.)

My Wife's Blog

Good stuff. Some nice pictures. Sadly, this one is real.

F1r57!

This is my first post. A couple of things have convinced me to start keeping a blog.

1. This blog post
2. Hit my head pretty hard skateboarding last Friday, and it's got me thinking of trying new things.
3. I'm a dad now. Maybe my kid will want to read this stuff someday... humor me.
   
4. I used to write more and found it very therapeutic. Nowadays, all I write are emails (often arguing about politics with friends) and legal documents. It's been a while since I wrote free-standing prose.
5. Probably some other reasons I'm not thinking of right now.