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The Second Annual Intern Basketball Challenge took place in Mountain View on Tuesday. Unlike last year’s challenge, the interns were victorious 26-24 over the full-timers (first to 21 by 1’s, win by 2).

I was able to record some video on my digital camera not intended for recording video for as long as the battery lasted, available on Youtube. I especially like what happens at 2:47 in this video.

On Thursday, the interns were victorious again in a game of dodgeball against the full-timers.

Special thanks to shaver for taking us all out to dinner after the basketball game.

Thanks to the Internet, I found out what happened in the last Harry Potter book a good bit in advance of the release date. It was cleverly hidden around every corner in images and jokes. I haven’t been keeping track of when the next book is coming out, otherwise I might have been on guard to what happened a little while ago. I decided to visit the Something Awful forums for the first time in awhile and found a plot spoiler as the name of a forum. I don’t want to know if it’s true or not, but I’m sure I will be seeing more of these in the coming weeks as it’s apparently almost release time.

In other news, I got my iPhone last weekend in Palo Alto. It’s really awesome for the most part. I’m not too happy with the built-in Gmail support. It pulls the last 25 emails from Gmail, regardless of whether they’re in the inbox or archived. I also learned that the picture the camera shows you after you take a picture is not in fact the picture it took. Several of my pictures of the Kwik-E-Mart we went to are blurry because I thought they came out fine.

I was really busy at work this week, and next week will be even worse, but hopefully rewarding. The week after that I’ll be in Portland for OSCON.

I’ve spent the last week in Baton Rouge visiting family and friends and working from home, and will be heading back to Mountain View tomorrow. I have a really long post about my Tokyo trip that I need to finish but will eventually post.

I suspect I will give in and get an iPhone pretty soon, although I’ll try to hold out as long as possible.