Today, Jerry turned 11 months old. Check out his exciting eleventh month!

I let someone down yesterday. He asked me to keep something to myself and I didn’t. There was a problem associated with the topic and he credited my leak with the cause - then he called me on leaking the information.

I am fascinated to watch myself go through the 5 stages of grief, both because my emotions seem to map so well to this theory and because I am able to observe my own behavior so clearly. (That being said, my observation is not inline per-se.)

Since Zack no longer maintains his blog, I figured I would make a post for him. After two years of humming and hawing, Zack and Katie are officially boyfriend and girlfriend (again).

I was talking to Eriko via Skype when Jerry promptly pushed himself to a standing position (using a plastic box) and then released his hands!

He stood there for a good 5 seconds before sitting down. Eriko said that he did the same thing the night before.

Wow.

I finished reading this while on the plane(s) from Seattle to Moscow.

There was a 10-page (or so) feature section on off-shore banking centers. Wow - there’s a lot of people with a lot of money. Speaking people with money, politics is so mixed up with money today that even Mr. Smith would be crooked.

Today I gave a presentation at a UW systems research seminar, due to invitation from Hank Levy (the current chair of the UW CSE department!).

I had been nervous a few weeks before, but when I started talking today I was very smooth - in fact, I was surprised at how easy it was. Of course, there were some slides which were less relevant, I could have had a more smooth delivery at times, and my body language was a bit off (I fiddled with my hands quite a bit, said umm, etc.) Overall, however, I’m pleased.