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A belated Happy Holidays to everyone and Happy New Year!

Oh and I failed miserably at NaNoWriMo… got off to a strong start then just got too busy to keep it up. I will probably go back and finish up the story at some point though

NaNoWriMo Day 1, 1927 words \m/

I just signed up for NaNoWriMo, also known as National Novel Writing Month. 50,000 words in 30 days. Should be a lot of fun, and maybe drive me to finish something. I’m doing a novel set in the same world and with the same characters as Sex in the Emerald city, but not using any content from that already 10,000+ word story.

Current word count 990 according to Scrivener… doing the math 50,000 words in 30 days is 1,666 words per day.

This is getting ridiculous… the Pens are now 11-3-0, we’ve been to four games this season, and have been at all 3 of the losses

The good: the Pens are off to a 5-1-0 start
The bad: our only tickets so far this season were to the one loss

I just found that funny. Back to debugging code I go.

The Pens season opener is tomorrow night. I’m curious to see how the revised team does. I so missed hockey. Our first tickets are October 7th against Phoenix. It should be a blast… and I could definitely use the break after all the work recently… we should be wrapping the massive contract we’ve been working on next week \m/

Tomorrow is the home opener of the pre-season for the Penguins. It’s also our first hockey tickets of the season. I’m really looking forward to the game, should be a lot of fun.

Ok, WTF?!?! Out of Ovechkin, Datysuk, and Malkin freaking Ovechkin won BOTH the MVP awards? Datysuk and Malkin are both twice the player Ovechkin is, and do more on the ice than cherry pick goals. And WTF was up with awarding the Art Ross and Rocket Richard trophies at the same freaking time? Was it too much to let Malkin actually get some spotlight on his own since he is one of the premier players in the league?

All I can say is

I was too worn out from celebrating last night to blog (I haven’t blogged about it much recently, but I’m a HUGE hockey fan and we have a 1/2 season ticked package with the Pens and were at every other home playoff game :metal:)

I’d just like to take a moment to say “screw you, Hossa” for jerking around the organization and fans at signing time last year and for publicly stating he had a better chance to win the Cup in Detroit. It’s also amusing to note that thus far Detroit has made no moves to extend his one year contract.

A shot to commemorate the playoff beard before it gets shaved off.

In the definition of irony, Steve Ballmer calls for Apple to support openness on the iPhone. This is awesome coming from the CEO of the company that practically invented vendor lock in

Ballmer argued that device openness was important to give customers more choices. And he pointed to the number of choices that Windows Mobile customers have when choosing a device.

“I agree that no single company can create all the hardware and software,” he said. “Openness is central because it’s the foundation of choice.”

Apple is top of mind for execs at MWC | 3GSM blog - CNET Reviews

Matt Assay at CNET also sees the irony here

Ballmer stumps for openness in bid to beat Apple | The Open Road - CNET News