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In keeping with my slow quest to catch up on my photo backlog, here are a couple new galleries.  First, the cruise:

I went to the Web 2.0 Expo a couple months ago and someone asked me to talk into a video camera about how the web has changed my life.  Now you can vote for me online - every day!

http://howdoyou.com/pages/ViewEntry.aspx?entry=65

Please remember to vote early, vote often!

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Everything is going great so far. We had our first stop in Cabo San Lucas, mostly famous as a place college students go to on spring break. This is my first trip to Mexico (since I was old enough to remember). Although Yelena's been to Mexico multiple times, she's never been to Cabo. Both of us were rather disgusted by the town; it's very clean and all the buildings are brand new and freshly painted and there are cops everywhere, but you still don't feel safe.

For a while now I've been aware that the Droid is the fabled "iPhone killer."  The conventional wisdom disagrees, claiming that no one has toppled the iPhone yet, especially with the hot new one coming out.  The Droid's hardware stacks up nicely against the iPhone 3G, even the 3GS, but of course the real magic is in the software.  In this case, text entry.

There's an op-ed in today's New York Times about the place of electronic communication in society: