I don't write here often, but I also work on open source projects.

For those not aware, Google+ allows you to share your posts publicly or to any number of circles, which are user-defined collections of people that they follow the posts of. This was meant to allow for privacy where, for example, if I have some family photos I want to share, I could share them with my family circle rather than publicly (as in Twitter) or with all of my connections (as in Facebook).

This was written as a speech for a training class at work, so the tone is a little odd for a blog post, but oh well.

I was reading the Star Tribune today, which had a few budget related articles. One was related to the Gang of Six who is trying to get a bipartisan budget deal going (note, this is actually an NY Times article). They also mentioned the NY Times budget calculator from November. I played around with it for a while (here's my plan), which surprisingly, required less tax increases than I would have expected.

BusinessWeek posted an article last night about Android's openness.

So the big story today is the AT&T acquisition of T-Mobile. Here's the announcement.