I'm making a list of places to go:

• Vancouver
• Venice. It's going to be underwater someday and I really want to get there before then.
• Seattle (again)
• Portland
• Spain/France.
• Isle of Man. I don't really know why. It got my attention when I saw the Wikipedia entry for Tynwald Day. I'm not incredibly convinced that it wouldn't be boring, though going during Manx National Week seems to guarantee some goings-on; but I'm curious anyway.

After weeks of doing other stuff, I've been catching up on the housing crash news. It looks like I've been right all along in agreeing with the bubble predictors: it's happening in slow motion, but it's happening. Thankfully, I can do math, and didn't buy a house. Because of the bizarro economics of the Bay Area--low supply, high demand, and lots of people making lots of money--a really thorough crash here is less likely than a serious softening. Still, other parts of the country are currently or will start crashing, like San Diego or Florida, and

I think Apple has just received my Bug of the Year award--belatedly, since that bug is from 2003. It gets serious extra points for the "solution" being "Don't do that".