I'm building the HH site in Cold Fusion. It's so nice and easy to use. Especially when you have a freelance guy doing most of the work. But I've picked up a thing or two. Macromedia (well, originally Allaire) did a really nice job on this one. There was a minor explosion at the U today. Jay was tooling around on rollerblades eating some free popcorn from the bookstore when he stopped to watch EMTs give CPR to one of the students. So he tells me he's standing there just eating popcorn and watching all the action until he realized how callous it must look, so he slowly backed away. Jay makes me laugh.

Last night I watched Frontline's two-hour documentary on the war in Afghanistan. It was really interesting. I was struck by the teams that were on the ground over there, riding with the Northern Alliance on horseback. The soldiers said that the initial bombings left the Alliance skeptical as to whether the US could make any difference. That changed when one special ops guy and a faction head climbed onto a communications tower and started pointing out actual homes of where Taliban officials lived. The Special Ops guy called up and asked if there were any planes nearby. He targeted the homes with lasers and, within a short period, surgical strikes were made that took out those exact targets. The Afghani soldiers were pretty impressed. Frankly, I think people forget that the reason we can hit targets so precisely is that there are soldiers on the ground marking the targets. That's hardcore. I was impressed by the level of cooperation all the different factions displayed. They must have been so tired of bloodshed and strife that there was really no other option for them. Relatively dull day. Another car crash outside the window.