My birthday is just days away and I know I’m not the easiest person to shop for even if you know me well. So, I thought I would give people an idea of some things that I would like. First off I am not saying you should buy me something. A simple birthday card would do the trick and would make me feel quite special. But for those that would like to be unnecessarily generous, here are some things that would be supa sweet! I’m big into reading magazines and they only come in one color, size, and style, which makes it easier to buy.
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I learned about a new feature that came with my IM client this weekend. It’s called Off-The-Record Encryption (OTR) and automagically comes with Adium X which operates only under OS X. The nice thing about using OTR is that it’s open source! I had never used OTR before and had no way of testing it so I convinced a couple of my friends to install the OTR plugin. There are two versions of the OTR plugin for GAIM so be sure you download the appropriate version. There is a limit of 892 on the number of characters you can send through the plugin. When not using the plugin there is a limit of 896 characters that you can send in a message. note: a space is considered a character.

My friends and I were sitting in the lab and began to look up cities in Indiana on Wikipedia. We then discovered a town by the name of Boston, Indiana which had a population of 133 according to the 2000 census. I then gave the proposition that we should have a “game” to find the smallest town in Indiana according to wikipedia. A few minutes later I came accross a motorcycle blog where the rider came across “The Smallest Town in Indiana’. The name of the town is New Amsterdam, IN and is located along southern Indiana along the Ohio river. New Amsterdam is reported to have a population of 1 according to the 2000 US Census Bureau. The town apparently does not have a Post Office and all of the mail gets sent to a nearby town called “Mauckport, IN” and someone there drives it to New Amsterdam. Well when the Census came around, the driver never dropped off the Census Forms. A lady that lived in the town called and said that she lived there. So in the Census report it only reports 1 person living in the town. Rumor also has it that there are more people that live in the town. I think I might take a trip to this town someday to check it out. I will be sure to take a camera with me if I go