Remember when I got an authentication chip implanted last summer?  Here are the pictures I took before and after the procedure, and in case you're feeling brave here's the video footage.

I'm back from The Next HOPE in New York City with lots to write about and lots of pictures to put up. However, I'm also snowed under at work this week, so my writeup of the con is going to take a while to put together (a paragraph here and there), edit, check, and finally get posted. Suffice it to say, getting three hours of sleep the night I got back to DC didn't leave me in a state to really do anything coherent. What I will say is that TNH was one of the most powerful experiences I've ever …

...someone's put up a BitTorrent tracker for all of the footage that was shot of the presentations. The torrents are looking pretty healthy right now, so if you download them, don't forget to seed.

Todd of A Different Drum was nice enough to post a YouTube playlist of music videos of some of the synthpop acts his label works with, such as Leiahdorus, De/Vision, and Cosmicity. Check 'em out.