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It's been a while since I updated my blog, but a lot has been going on. I was at Lafayette a few days ago, and then John and Olga came down for the weekend. I ended up seeing the Statue of Libery, and taking some amazing photographs! I'll be putting those up on my website soon (thanks to Olga's Fuji).

Also, one of my friends from back in the day invited us to a house party, and I already have my hands on some new music from that night. Rest assured that those tracks - as well as tracks from a hot Trance Nation album my brother gave me to listen to whilst on the subway - all be incorporated into my new mixes: "Rhythm Electro (Episode 3) - And Beyond" and "Revolution Trance (Episode 5) - Subway". Speaking of which, I've been window-shopping online for speakers, and I can't wait until I can get them. You'll know when I do :)

Otherwise, New York continues to burn my wallet beyond extremes, but I'm learning how to deal with it. I'm in college ... what else can I say.

I read 2 days ago that Hillary Clinton has opposed Bush's "plan" to send more troops to Iraq, and has in fact strongly recommended that troops already in Iraq be brought back by 2009. Go Hillary! Though, I have a bad feeling about the next year ... let's hope for the best.

In other news, I'm becoming more and more acquainted with Xubuntu - it's stable, it's simple, and it does what I need. My hardware is another story, but hopefully after I upgrade to a gig of ram, things will run much more smoothly. I would still recommend Xubuntu to anyone deciding to switch to Linux.

That's all for now, but I'll be back with more later!

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