You can check out our first traunch of photos here:
http://toddbeckett.com/gallery/v/0901Honeymoon

Chapter 1: We’ll always have Paris.

Biden was right, Barack will be tested very early in his presidency by foreign powers. The test however will not come form terrorists or rogue nations, but overzealous western nations. Imagine a scenario where Dick Cheney goes to Davos, or W heads to some conference in Africa, but on the way they are arrested for charges of war crimes, which have been sitting at the Hague as sealed incitements for violations of the Geneva Convention.

I have been using vista (with much reluctance) for a couple weeks with office 2007, and I can tell you. The good news is Vista isn't nearly as terrible as it was a year ago. The bad news is, the commercials are wrong, it still sucks. Microsoft has messed up both of their flagship products in short succession. No doubt that open office still sucks worse and google docs aren't really there yet, but MS you picked a terrible time to mangle your 2 best products.

The Prince of Petworth says so:
http://www.princeofpetworth.com/?p=2922#comments

Here is my review of the Baltimore Marathon:

Baltimore is a great run. First you you go up to and through druid park, and past the historic Lexington Market (home of Balitmore's best crab cakes.) Then the next 13 miles rotate around the inner harbor. Mile 11 takes runners out to Fort McHenry, which is the site of authorship of the "Star Spangled Banner". The view is awesome! Then you head back into the inner harbor. This is actually the worst part of the run, because there is too much temptation to call it at half way.

I was told by a friend not to pray to God for patience, because God has a tough way of teaching us patience. Like stranding us somewhere or making us wait a human eternity for something we really want. This attitude reflects one that I have found in my own prayer life. I find it difficult to pray when things are generally going well.

This video is quite moving. It was sent my Betsy Mitchel Henning at my church. She mused about why the difference in meaning when something written by a 30 something is sung by an 80 year old. Personally, I found my self crying for the singer, for myself, and for all of us.

Scott Turow's latest work of historical fiction, Ordinary Heroes is pretty awesome. The meta theme I got out of it was that with all parents and children there remains a gap. A place of misunderstanding. A quest for the why's, if you prefer. In this book the main character tries to make sense of his parents, and is able to reconstruct the facts, but somehow seems just as far from understanding as when he starts.

Life is a series of doors we walk through. It is entirely a matter of our perspective whether these doors lead to a prison cell or freedom.