Dec 31 2007
It is well known that people rarely keep their New Year’s resolutions. That is primarily due to the fact that the concept is generally ill conceived and poorly executed.
A “resolution” is something you “resolve” to do. Yet the motivating factor behind most New Year’s resolutions is simply the need to anchor some desire for change [...]
Dec 29 2007
This blog turned seven years old on December 27. Seven years! That’s 449,345 words in 1,518 posts.
To celebrate, I upgraded to Wordpress 2.3.1, and added a plugin that makes my archives appear in a drop-down list. Go me.
Dec 28 2007
For the fifth year in a row, I prepared a turkey dinner for ten adults and three children. Every year I resolve to make the meal less complicated than the previous, and so far it seems to be working. My reason for getting progressively simpler is that I’ve come to realize that, at least for [...]
Dec 23 2007
Toute la famille is gathering chez nous for Christmas. Tonight we’ll have four overnight guests, and tomorrow it will be up to seven. Oh – and there’s a dog. An adorable ten-month-old labradoodle who stands about three feet tall and is still in the throws of full hyperactive puppydom.
The mini, however, is not impressed. He [...]
Dec 19 2007
The uproar over Facebook and it’s Beacon advertising platform has died down somewhat, although that doesn’t mean Beacon is any less of a bad idea. But I thought I’d share a few other Facebook tales for those who aren’t following the story too closely.
Flagrant Violation of VPPA
One of Facebook’s Beacon partners is Blockbuster, the movie [...]
Dec 16 2007
I have an old G3 iBook that Martine and I use primarily as a Web terminal. We both use our desktop machines for real work, but it’s handy to have a Web machine kicking around for use anywhere in the house.
Given its vintage, the iBook is a bit slow by today’s standards. It was tolerable, [...]
Dec 11 2007
I currently have seventy seven (that’s 77) blog posts in “draft” form. That’s almost a year’s worth if I post at a rate of 1.5 per week. But most of them will never see the light of day because they’ve lost their immediacy or would require too much work to justify publishing them.
Some are merely [...]
