Perhaps it is a sign that I need to find a hobby, or perhaps it is just jitters from starting a new job in a new programming language; but I woke up in the middle of the night dreaming about safe ways to write copy constructors when some of the member variables are using std::auto_ptr<>.

Slate has a great piece on wind chills, and I agree.  Since wind chill is a measure of how quickly heat will leave bare skin, it is almost completely meaningless.  If you are clothed or indoors the wind chill factor doesn't affect you at all, but the temperature matters very much.

Why don't they report wind chills in the summer, when we are outside with exposed skin?  Would that be nice, "Tomorrow will be in the high 90's but with the wind chill factor it will feel like 85."

Well, it's been a long run, but I am finally moving on from HKS. For the last 13 years I have been working as an Objective-C programmer.  However on Monday I will become a C++/Qt programmer for AIM-USA.

I know this is silly, but the thing that I actually am most concerned about is learning to budget biweekly instead of monthly.  You can expect a new biweekly version of my blank budget template in the next month or so.

My new company has a great insurance plan which means I can't contribute to my HSA account any more, but it should save me about $5000 a year in health insurance costs.  While I believe in high deductible insurance as a good thing for the country, I am going to do whatever will save me the most money.