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I figured that it is high time for a blog post, seeing how the year recently ended. So, enjoy it while it lasts.

Let's see what I accomplished in 2006 (in semi-chronological order): yet another wonderful year of theamigan.net being in operation, building fez, getting a nice shiny new DAP (and subsequently becoming a user of rockbox for it), "composing" the Epic Battle Song, getting out of my classic rock slump, becoming a digital photography advocate (you thought it'd never happen...), actually getting a cellular telephone, turning into a Nutella addict, turning into a last.fm addict, writing MSPT, consuming heinous amounts of MDX during the summer, writing very little code over said summer, dancing like a maniac on camera over said summer, relenting and playing starcraft over said summer, watching every single episode of That 70's Show, doing the same for Futurama, proving that I am the messiah, getting a job bussing (and becoming "the best bus boy we ever had"), operating a motor vehicle, eating a shitload of falafel, watching an Italian film without subtitles, beginning work on a movie, meeting the most wonderful girl on the face of the planet, getting yet another cellular telephone, and ending the year watching Seinfeld season 4.

What a wonderful year it was. Even if a lot of bad shit happened. The end.

Dan out.

The Dems now control the House, and we're waiting on the Senate (damn you Virginia!).

Now, I'm not saying the Democrats are all little angels (indeed, one of my senators, Lincoln Chafee, was quite possibly one of the better politicians in Congress, and he was a Republican. More on this later.), but having a GOP House and Senate has proved to be nothing but disastrous. Obviously, Bush is quite possibly up shit creek without a paddle without a House and Senate backing his every move. Also, Rumsfeld's resignation came as welcome news to many, including myself (though I have a feeling his replacement will prove himself just as inept).

In Rhode Island, the Senate race was shocking to some, myself not included. Around these parts, a mention of Linc Chafee usually invokes a sense of political integrity, and I for one am sad to see him go. He and Jack Reed made a good team when it came to representing our tiny state. His successor, Sheldon Whitehouse, doesn't really give me a warm fuzzy feeling; I have a feeling he will, as the ads say, "do nothing".

As for the RI house race, the representative for district 2 turned out to be ol' Jim Langevin again, something I am not overly pleased about. Rod Driver seemed to be the better man in this race, but he (expectedly) only got 27% of the vote, being an independent.

As for the rest of the local politics, Carcieri is staying for another term as our dumbass governor. Not that Chhhhharrrrrrliieeeeee Fogarty would have been much better, but I think it's time for a change of scenery up in the state house. Also, question 1 was struck down, so no casino for us. And question 2 was approved (yay!) so now parolees and probationers can vote. And that Haldeman guy that came to talk to my class, who proved himself to be an idiot, didn't win.

So that's it. Hopefully these changes will help to fix some of the crap that's accumulated over the years.

I haven't posted here in a long time. So I will attempt to fill the world in on my wonderful, fun-filled life and what has been going on in it.

First and foremost, as many of you know, I have started a service called MSPT, which is a MySpace Profile Tracker. Read the page if you want general info.

Basically, it's written in PHP and uses MySQL. I might release it under the BSD license if someone asks for it. Who knows.

Currently, it has 106 users and growing (about 1 or 2 users per hour or so.) It really probably isn't the best of trackers, but I think they way it works is quite novel, and I wrote it so it must be good. People seem to like it. I plan on adding new features as they are asked for.

Secondly, I did indeed get my X5, and I love it. It has also gotten me many glances and "that's weird"s from people I know, as well as people I don't know. I think it's much cooler than an iPod, at any rate.

Thirdly, I recently helped Matt reinstall and get gorman (animenuke download server) up and running. I tried to secure this system as much as I could, though I have reason to believe that the most recent attacker got in through either Matt's rather poorly-written PHP code, the fact that he was using a horrendously outdated version of PHP, or a combination of both.

Lastly, I have lots of final projects. This is going to be fun. But there's only less than 20 days of hell left! Yay!

Dan out. Have fun.

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