LiveJournal's moving to Russia! Bumped into David Recordon yesterday at an Oauth brunch and he mentioned that there was some kind of gathering today, but he didn't say why. I guess this is it. Anil kept schtum as well. Cheeky swine.
In the arena that night, the whole last minute was drowned out by cheers — and then when the soaring music swelled, the confetti rained down as the harbinger of balloons and the hopeful first family took the stage, forget about it — it was a perfect end to a convention that last Monday, no one even knew if it would happen. But it did, and I'm so glad to have been there.
Reuters - Hurricane Ike barreled toward Cuba as an
extremely dangerous Category 4 storm on Sunday and was forecast
to sweep into the central Gulf of Mexico as a large and
powerful storm echoing Hurricane Gustav.
