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Back home, all good. The train was very busy yesterday evening. Went to bed after we got home, tired from the trip and got a little too much sun at the parade. Got up early this morning.

Headed to Darien, CT for Nicole's best friend's, Ingrid, birthday party. Will be there till tomorrow. Nice and semi-sunny out, but I think there is a good chance of rain.

Information Architects does it again, they have created the Cosmic 140, it’s the 140 most influential people on twitter, sorted by #name #handle #category #influence #activity. Plus: When they started tweeting and what they first said.

What a big deal they have made of Lost's series finale, bah. I got tired of watching it a couple of season ago, too crazy. I am, however, watching 24's finale, very good. Jack Bauer is definitely the best character on TV in a long time.

The Washington Post has an op-ed from Mark Zuckerberg expressing a controlled sort of contrition for its recent privacy moves and promising a simpler privacy-settings interface . He has such a big mouth, and for so long has been so adamant that people don't care about privacy. The piece falls short of the "we're sorry" apology you might want. Zuckerberg allows that in Facebook's quest to make it easier for people to connect and share online, "sometimes we move too fast." He goes on to write that in trying to give users maximum control over their exposure on the widely used social network, Facebook "just missed the mark."