Fires, Boing Boing, and Rising from the Ashes

I had most of this entry written on Monday, but after having my browser crash on me (once again) and taking the post with it, I have now decided I will write all future entries in Word or Notepad and just hand-code the damn HTML. It might be bit more tedious, but it’s much better than having to rewrite entire posts. I suppose that’s what I get for having to have twelve browser windows open simultaneously.

Anyway, on Saturday night, Brandy and I went to sleep around midnight (Why? Because we’re old and married, that’s why.). Around 12:30 a.m. and half-asleep, we started hearing sirens. When we were still hearing them at 1 a.m., we decided to take a little walk to see what was going on. Well, it turns out that a building a half-block from us caught fire. And how. I couldn’t find anything about it on the local news sites; trés cool that you can find better photo coverage on flickr than you can through traditional media outlets.

The next morning, hoping to see some television coverage of the fire, we flipped on the TV and were greeted instead by stories of this fire:

And you thought I didn’t go the East Bay much before.

Sometimes, the quantity of cool and valuable information on Boing Boing boggles my mind. From the whole AACS revolt to the anti-DRM (digital rights management) movement to the RIAA boycott, Cory Doctorow and crew present the news that you didn’t know you needed. And also some cool stuff, like the book, Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder. I will definitely be picking up this title.

And on to the last order of business for today. Until this morning, I had been unaware that they had already released this trailer. If you shared my ignorance, you may now consider yourself cured.