Events

The California Court of Appeal, Sixth District, has reversed a lower-court order that blogger Jason O'Grady had to turn over his sources for a story he wrote about Apple Computer: Online writers are protected by the state's shield law for reporters as well as by the 1st Amendment, the state Court of Appeal in San Jose ruled, reversing a lower court decision. Apple subpoenaed the e-mail provider of Jason O'Grady, publisher of O'Grady's PowerPage, an Internet site that posted information in 2004 about an...

It's great to be home. So good, in fact, that I did almost nothing of commercial or professional value for four days straight. I'm back now. I've got a lot to catch up on, not least of which is a two-week pile of stuff in my office. I also have a collection of photos to go through from the last three weeks or so, like this one of the New Hampshire State Capitol: But first, I have to pay bills and send out invoices.

I'll be away from the blog for a couple of days while I return to Chicago. I've enjoyed Nashua, and I'm sure I'll come back to visit. Everyone here was friendly; for example, my unexpected dinner companion, Max: Back Monday. Enjoy the weekend.

These are from my not-small, not-simple camera. (Note: the photos are shown at half-size; you can see more detail if you open them in their own browser windows.) The plane that brung me: Nantucket Memorial Airport, just as it looked in Wings: House on Washington St., with the harbor behind it: Nantucket Town. Yes, it is that charming. I suspect things were different when Ishmael bunked with Queequeg: Another view of Main St.: The Whaling Museum:

I have two cameras. One is very small and very simple, the other is neither. Here are some photos from yesterday that I took with the small, simple camera. Altitude, 7,500 feet (2,300 m): VFR on top, meaning I was flying in visual conditions on top of this cloud layer: Nantucket Island: Also, a bonus shot. As I reported earlier, a tornado touched down about 60 km (40 mi.) east of me on Sunday. As I was getting the Nantucket photos off my camera, I discovered I had a photo of the wall cloud that spawned...

The jury is no longer out: one can now say, without fear of libeling them, that Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling are a couple of theiving fraudsters.

Today, actually. I took lots of photos but I'm too pooped right now to deal with them. So tomorrow morning check back for a cohort—nay! a plethora!—of photos. And possibly a limerick. The flight down went quickly (1.2 hours from Nashua to Nantucket), I had a great landing, and took a leisurely stroll into town. (A side note: With AVGAS approaching $5 per gallon, the $100 hamburger now costs $320.) On the way back I encountered (a) rain at Martha's Vineyard that kept me circling offshore for ten mintues...