[8am]
I just got invited out to breakfast. Will post more after I’ve eaten.
[11:30 am]
Well, that was a pleasant start to the day. Went out, put fuel in the truck, picked up my free calendar at the gas-station for 2005, put fuel in me, and spent over an hour chatting. Then a stop at the grocery store, follwed by a car-wash for the truck so it’ll be clean until the freezing rain hits tomorrow, and home. That feels like a pretty darned good morning to me. I followed it up with a bit of business, wrapping up the 2004 payroll, and then spent a few minutes perusing the Miles of Music holiday catalog that arrived this morning. Yeah, they’re late, but they’re just about my local music store, in spite of being in CA, and mailing the catalogs from New York.
Then it was time to give y’all some links, which I’m doing right now. I think I’ll follow that up with some lunch, and then perhaps (to steal a phrase from Jeff), I’ll log some time on the couch. It feels like a good day for doing very little.
- The American Red Cross Disaster Relief page at amazon.com is at about $1 ¼ million as I write this. The money is earmarked for relief for those hit by the tsunami in Asia and Africa. That’s almost ten times what France has pledged to relief efforts at this point, even with the dollar trying to achieve parity with the loonie. Yeah, we Americans are pretty stingy. Yes, it’s a tragedy, not only because a lot of people were killed, but also because a lot of them could have lived if they’d been warned about the tsunami and known what to do. Tsunamis are rare in the Indian Ocean, and there is no early-warning system in place. That’s probably all I’ll have to say on the subject. [instapundit]
- A while back, Scriptygoddess was asking about web dev tools for mac and the comments have some suggestions I should look at one of these days.
- Speaking of things to look at, check out The Fanwing, a goofy, but totally new type of plane. Okay. The physics makes some sense, but it’s still weird.
- Since the year’s almost done (two more days of Dave’s Picks in 2004), here are the EPIC Top Ten Privacy Resolutions for 2005. Not a bad list. [schneier]
- There’s A trove of St. Paul history in St. Paul’s newly renovated Central Library, including high-school yearbooks back into the 19th Century. Hmm. It’s probably worth a trip over there sometime, if for no other reason than that I’ve never been in that building, and it looks pretty cool. For that matter, it’s been quite a while since I just wandered around downtown St. Paul, and maybe I need to make time for an outing like that one of these days. [press-patch]