I was in Reston, Virginia from the 2nd until the 6th attending a programming conference. I spent Monday exploring Washington D.C.

Fall colours hung and fell from the trees. I'll post some pictures soon.

Travelling alone gave me time to read, ponder.

Here's a poem I wrote one night, drawing from the 2004-2005 memory banks. (Mmmmmm, ambiguous.)

I caught, one morning, a glimpse

 of an ought-to-be

  hanging from your lips

I fought, one morning, an ellipse

 of what I ought to see

  shadowed by your hips

I thought, one morning, we'd come to grips

 with that we sought to flee:

  the true purpose of these trips

And now for something completely different:

• Greco-Buddhism - the cultural syncretism between Hellenistic culture and Buddhism.
• Putting The Ocean in a Bowl - The Origin of the Buddha Image
• Evolution of the Buddha Image
• Killing the Buddha by Sam Harris
• Irony Mark - A whimsical punctuation mark (Are there any other kind?)
• Very Short Stories - 33 writers. 5 designers. 6-word science fiction.
• Dominoes Will Fall [video]
• The Hubble Deep Field - The Most Important Image Ever Taken [video]
• Economics for the Citizen