Michael Jackson's concert was interesting. It was funny to see all the 30 and 40-year olds yelling and screaming. I was more interested to hear that Natalie Yurtinus is now living in Casablanca, Morocco. Apparently they have some real issues over there repressing women. Not cool.

Tom Tarbet and I had a brief conversation the other day. He's in Utah, working for a tech company. Sounds like he's doing well. Jode's in Vegas still, and I'm hoping to see them down there in a couple of weeks.

Well, I called it. I was right on about "Joe Millionaire" and what they were going to do with the poor couple. I've heard some interesting gossip about what Evan and Zora are doing with the money now that the show is over - it sounds like Evan really is a dork and Zora's too good for him. It probably won't last between them. You watch.

I was sorry to hear about my friend Jason's arrest recently. That's gotta suck for his wife, kids, and family especially. I know there are two sides to every story, but it's sad nonetheless. I hope things turn out okay in the end.

You know, I think a lot of people are going to be shocked to find out that HTML-email support is, by default, disabled in the new version of MS Outlook (Outlook 11). I think it's a step in the right direction, not only for security reasons (viruses, malicious scripts, etc.), but simply for the fact that email was never meant to include HTML content! HTML just bloats the email, makes it load slower, and doesn't really add much (in the vast majority of cases) to the meaning. When everyone at the office feels the need to include a color signature and background image, it's gets a little ridiculous. Of course, when they send the mail, it never appears correctly anyway - the background image is always an attachment, so are those stupid v-cards. Do I really care that you want me to read your message in the Arial font instead of the one I've chosen to use (Times New Roman)? The ones I like are the messages that have all the important text in the regular (plain text) window, but then there's an attachment - when you open up the attachment, it's just the same text all over again, except this time in Arial and colored blue (Rich Text formatted). Whoopty do! Ooh, I'm so impressed. I think Microsoft should've steered clear of HTML in email completely. Rich Text, maybe - just for underlines/bold/highlights, etc., but definitely not HTML. There's no point to it.