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Heart goes out to the people of Norway! What madness there is in the world!

Had a sad experience today. Went to Borders and walked into their going-out-business sale. I got a good deal on my SciFi periodicals (40% off), but the sad part is that they won't be there any more. Will be a challenge finding the periodicals once they are gone. Goodbye Borders! Goodbye, goodbye!

Watched a movie about how some of the changeover in Africa was accomplished by the efforts of a handful of dedicated men. They put themselves in harms way in order to pull off a negotiated ending and ultimate reversal to apartheid. The film was called Endgame and was a measured telling of the story and actions that took place. The film doesn't focus on Mandela but on the actions by these men to find a way to peace.

Had several dreams over the past few nights. In one I was working with a group of guys figuring out a design element for some kind of object/device. It was clear to me how the design elements were to be applied, but I couldn't quite bring the design to a point of it being testable. We were in a house (that I've been in before in other dreams). I was starting to feel a bit paranoid, thinking that the other group members were judging me because the design was not working out. At one point in the dream, I went downstairs to a garage area. I recalled that I had not locked the garage doors. I felt that there was someone casing the place and looking for an opportunity to come in that way.

There was another dream but I don't recall the details. I seem to remember that it too was about work. Oh, yes! The dream had to do with the development of numerical analysis protocols that could be used to search through masses of data. The protocols would isolate characteristics across multiple data entries. It was a refinement on Google's search algorithms and could produce incredible results. In the dream, I was explaining the protocols and how they could be used.