Very Local News

• We had a fire alarm at work. It is a pretty big building. Any trouble in any part of it causes an alarm to go off all over the building. We didn't evacuate. It still cost some time. How did they handle this sort of thing in buildings like the towers in New York? It makes me think that people were used to alarms going off and not evacuating until they were told to do so.
• Li-Ion batteries are called new generation batteries. I've been using them for a decade.
• Obama Wins. Well, the results are not in at this hour, but I said this would happen. I'm trying to think of the last time I went to CNN's web page for anything. I only wish McCain had lost Texas just to put a nail in the coffin.