The Hitchens Consortium Many Thoughts. One Brain. Zero Sense.

Welcome to Christopher Shawn McKee! He was born last night and weighs 7 pounds and 8.5 ounces. Mom and baby are both well. I'm heading over to Texas Women's later to check on everyone :)

Recently, I think I may have posted about wanting to try my hand at some electronics projects. After doing some research, I believe I may be farther along toward my goal than I originally thought, but there are still vast holes in my understanding of some concepts.

I've been doing some pretty slick stuff with the iPhone lately, though none of it is of my own creation (yet). I have a few good ideas though, and I've started thinking about a project or two.

I had an interesting experience this weekend working on Tianna's Jeep. From broken switches to fuses to an alternator that craved a slow, painful death, I leaned a ton.

It's that time again. Time to fire up a browser and wear out the refresh button. Time to watch stock in companies that make black turtlenecks. Time to monitor obscure signals coming from the Moscone Center in San Fransisco to see just what's brewing in those off-limits areas before the magic starts. It's time for an Apple WWDC keynote.

Recently, I took the plunge and decided that it was time for me to pick up an XBox 360. I had been on the sidelines for a while because of the HD format war, but even now that that's over, I find I got a 360 anyway, since I've always preferred it over the PS3.

When I launched the site, I turned on Drupal's support for OpenID, which means that you can use your OpenID to log in to HitCon. That's fun, since I truly think that distributed identity providers are the way of the future.

So tonight I'm hopeful. I'm very very hopeful. Tonight I believe that Barack Obama will be victorious as the Democratic nominee for President of the United States.

I've decided to begin actively blogging some of my more organized projects. This is the site I will be doing it with. The site, itself, is also a project, so do have patience with me as it begins to take shape, function well, and help me communicate with you all.