I thought this was a great address to kids on the white house lawn.

I've been using twitter lately. And I'm also watching the launch of discovery tonight. And I'm wondering, why don't astronauts twitter from space? It would be great if crew members on the ISS would use twitter to post blurbs about their experience. What a great way to engage the public, particularly the youth, and also get positive public attention.

It will happen I'm sure, but I wonder who will be the first.

I feel better now. Managed to recover enough to go on our vacation to see the shuttle launch.

Following the mission, it is neat to see the SPDM alive and kicking. Congrats to the Canadians for another successful delivery.

While I was sick, I can report that my replacement ASUS G2S worked very well. Aside from the initial laptop having problems and having to send it back to ASUS multiple times, I am having a very good experience with the new one so far.