Well, this has been a busy month.  Rose came 2 weeks early, weighing in at 7'6 and 20 1/2 long.  She and Mom are doing really well, and we're slowly getting used to having a 4-person family. 

I've been able to wrap up a bunch of projects over the last 3 weeks, and am possibly going to get a bit of a break this Fall term. This next term will be the first break in a while without extensive school responsibilities. I've been doing the full-time work, full-time school gig for years, so it'll be great to slow down and enjoy weekends at home instead of at the library.

I recently purchased a 2nd-hand 2G iPhone.  I'm incredibly impressed with the device.  The combination of a Unix sub-system, an awesome display, and WiFi (I don't have a data-plan) make it an incredibly compelling package.  The screen is quite usable for reading.  I read a lot while we were in the hospital with Rose, as the combination of public wifi and lots of time burping a baby were a good combination.

Of course, the hamstrung OS / Apple restrictions are very frustrating. I don't understand why they couldn't have made it operate as a USB drive, similar to their older iPod line.  I jailbroke mine to enable loading on a book reading software, and have been loading of Project Gutenburg texts. Only by jailbreaking, and SSHing into the os as root did I really understand that they have a genuine *nix box.  The idea of running Apache on my phone is just very cool. 

Now if I can just get the keyboard to buzz a little bit on each keypress, I'll be a happy camper.