<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!-- generator="WordPress/2.5.1" -->
<rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title>Christopher Killian</title>
	<link>http://www.chriskillian.com</link>
	<description>Reflections on Life and Math</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:39:28 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>
	
	<item>
		<title>Owen&#8217;s Gift from Great-Grandma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My mom and grandmother drove down to pay us a visit last weekend and brought Owen a new outfit. I think it looks pretty cute. I snapped some photos of him wearing it, and he was kind enough to make this funny face he&#8217;s been doing lately. Actually, this is a variant on the new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chriskillian.com/2008/08/owens-gift-from-great-grandma/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Phone Conversation with Nick Leibham</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nick Leibham, the candidate for the California 50th Congressional district, gave me a call this week to talk about my earlier blog post about meeting him. I was in the dungeon at work, so he ended up talking to Karen for a few minutes. She passed along his thanks for the kind words and left [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chriskillian.com/2008/08/phone-conversation-with-nick-leibham/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>OPNETWORK 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m leaving first thing in the morning for a conference in Washington DC, where I&#8217;ll be until next Friday. The purpose of the trip is the yearly OPNETWORK conference for OPNET products. They make network performance management and analysis software, as well as their namesake OPNET Modeler discrete event simulation package for network R&#38;D. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chriskillian.com/2008/08/opnetwork-2008/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Climbing Iron Mountain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before Mark and I went to meet Nick Leibham this weekend, we did an early climb up Iron Mountain. It&#8217;s located just East of Poway, in the rough terrain between San Diego and Ramona. Initially, I hoped that an early morning climb would maximize my chance of seeing a California Kingsnake. I don&#8217;t particularly believe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chriskillian.com/2008/08/climing-iron-mountain/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Met Candidate Nick Leibham (D) This Weekend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I attended a living room gathering to meet Nick Leibham this weekend. He&#8217;s the Democratic candidate for California&#8217;s 50th Congressional District, and is hoping to unseat Rep. Brian Bilbray. I went in there already planning to vote for &#8220;anyone but Bilbray.&#8221; Rep. Bilbray&#8217;s lockstep march to idiocy with the Republican Party and his completely unsatisfactory [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chriskillian.com/2008/08/met-candidate-nick-leibham-d-this-weekend/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>It&#8217;s a Boy!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We just got back from the big 20th-week ultrasound. All of the bones and organs are in the right places and properly formed, and Sweet Pea is right on track for a normal birthweight (we choose our pet names for our kids as soon as we know they&#8217;re conceived so we have something to call [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chriskillian.com/2008/08/its-a-boy/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Blizzard&#8217;s Cross-Game Achievements</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blizzard announced that they are planning to do achievements across all their games as a kind of Blizzard player level. If you play someone on StarCraft II, you could look up their account to see what achievements they unlocked on, say WoW.
This cartoon from ctrl+alt+delete sums up pretty much everything I think about this idea. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chriskillian.com/2008/08/blizzards-cross-game-achievements/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Why No One Should Talk to the Police</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Bruce Schneier&#8217;s Schneier on Security blog, here&#8217;s a link to a very compelling law school lecture in which the professor explains in great detail why talking to the police in connection to a criminal case can never help you and can only hurt you, whether you are innocent, guilty, or not even a suspect [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chriskillian.com/2008/08/why-no-one-should-talk-to-the-police/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>July Music Roundup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, I know it&#8217;s August now. Better late than never, right?
The new music that spent the most time on my playlist this month was the fantastic Fires by Nerina Pallot. She was the vocalist on &#8220;Truly&#8221; from Delerium&#8217;s Chimera album. It&#8217;s a song that I&#8217;ve liked for so long that I went looking for anything [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chriskillian.com/2008/08/july-music-roundup/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>For Once, The LA Times Has a Point</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article does a great job of making a point that I&#8217;ve been trying to emphasize to the fringe kooks who still support the Bush Administration: supporting Bush&#8217;s harebrained and illegal policies has nothing to do with being conservative. It&#8217;s a completely different ideology besides conservatism that drives these people to adopt policies and take [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chriskillian.com/2008/07/for-once-the-la-times-has-a-point/</link>
			</item>
</channel>
</rss>
