Today, February 2nd, a lone gunman assaulted a classroom in near by Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill. The latest news reports put 5 killed and 22 injured, not including the gunman who killed himself.

Aside, from the shock of another school shooting, this incident hit close to home. I have family that live in the community of DeKalb and one of them was a first responder to the scene. He said it was complete chaos when he arrived.

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Today, Google made public it’s Social Graph API which is a way for web applications to consume specially tagged content that is designated as public connections. Google states they index the XHTML Friends Network (XFN), Friend of a Friend (FOAF) and other publicly declared connections. Read the rest of this entry »