One of my little qualms is that I hate it when there's hair in my food. Hate it. With a vengeance.

Which kind of put a damper on my joy of eating this risotto I made last night. I made it with squash. And panchetta. And chestnuts. And fresh sage, and chili. And coreander seeds. And a lot of other stuff.

But it was the butternut squash that made it look as if there were hairs in my risotto. Which was a turn-off.

My wife liked it, though. Actually, she really liked it.

Said it was the best thing she has had. Ever.

She did!

Not that it matters. Any more. Maybe it never did. But it felt strangely good to hear Don Imus cut his broadcasting of George W. Bush's speech this morning short, halfway through, noting that he wasn't really saying anything.

Mr. Imus maintained that the speech was only a litany of excuses for "this stupid war".

Can't say I disagree.

My daughter has got her first computer program (sorry, Mac only). And she loves it! When she taps the trackpad, a random, brightly colored shape appears on the screen, accompanied by a random sound. If she taps a key on the keyboard, that letter appears, in jumbo size, on the screen. You can even have the computer read out the letters as she types. And the name of each of the shapes! This is so cool!

Writing computer games for small children. That's what I want to do when I grow up.

I can't believe how easy this is. Now I understand how 13 year olds can be dangerous hackers. This stuff is mindnumbingly simple. Or deceptively simple. Maybe it's just me that's 'deceptively shallow'.

Packet sniffers are scary.

Mommy, I'm scared. Please make the Net secure and safe and good again.

We just slept for twelve hours. More or less straight. The little one woke up only once, barely, for a drink and a diaper change, and then went right back to sleep.

I've been awake now for all of five minutes.

Think I'll go back to bed and sleep some more.

Bliss!