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• Beer of the night: Firestone Walker Reserve Robust Porter. Mild bitterness for a porter, smooth, good roasted malt taste. 'Robust'? No #

We spent the afternoon at the fair to watch our friend Jialan shake her little Chinese booty with her salsa dance class. Even though it was 100 degrees out they did a great job! I think even the camel next door enjoyed their routine.

• Read the walk-through docs for the Tornado web server framework. It is very elegantly designed and powerful. http://www.tornadoweb.org #
• Friendfeed has open sourced it's web server / framework. Many unique features and is written in python http://www.tornadoweb.org/ #

• N1H1 virus from a computer scientist's point of view. Very fascinating stuff… makes me want to study bioinformatics: http://is.gd/2U5rH #
• XMPP just added to Google AppEngine. Must think of useful bots to write. http://is.gd/2R0sb #

We spent part of the last day of our central coast mini vacation at Avila. There must have been a large school of fish in the water of the bay. The pelicans were dive bombing into the water and the seals were swimming all around the pier. Quite a show mother nature put on for Gavin, Aliciana, and me.

We spent a three day weekend in San Luis Obispo to show Gavin around our old stomping grounds. It is amazing how much they have built at Cal Poly since I last visited! We also visited Pismo, Avila, and Morro Bay… lots of walks on various piers for Gavin.

• Twitter XSS exploit still possible. I'm tired of web devs who don't understand to escape (entity encode) all user input http://is.gd/2Aa9T #
• Cal Poly Prof creates beer from ancient yeast extracted from fossilized amber. I love my alma mater! Need to try some… http://is.gd/2z7Gi #
• RT @kevinrose: WHOA, Microsoft: http://bit.ly/nHOeq and Microsoft Poland: http://bit.ly/slQuQ – spot the difference? horrible… #

• Follow the llama. Obey the llama! -> @DoWhatITellYou #
• RT @bashcookbook You have a 1-entry "stack" with cd. Use "cd -" to go back to the previous working directory. #

• GM says Volt gets 230 mpg. If even 50% true then it will be game changing! http://bit.ly/VfTm5 (via @wired) #

• RT @wired: Hey! It's SysAdmin Appreciation Day. Go give your IT guys a hug! http://www.sysadminday.com #
• … wonder if the AP devs saw that their PHB's were missing the point of hNews but sold them the magic beans anyways. Microformats FTW (2/2) #
• Great post: Microformats, hNews, the AP and the Animals http://tinyurl.com/lc7ael (via @yelvington) As a developer it makes me… (1/2) #
• *Great* essay on maker's schedule vs manager's schedule (ie Developer vs Management) http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html #
• RT @RevRico: Is the Bakersfield real estate market finally starting to turn? http://tinyurl.com/mbsevb #
• AP's crazy content scheme is why a CSC should always be involved in technical decisions. This smells of too many MBA's: http://is.gd/1Sf5N #