‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse Except in my house, I’m spending Christmas Eve browsing the internet and getting fired up by anti-Christmas spirit over on Penelope Trunk’s blog. She did this last year and the year before too and I know [...]

I took the 43 Things Personality Quiz and found out I’m an Extroverted Traveling Builder Extroverted and travelling I get but why the builder?

Gentle readers, I need your advice. The biggest lesson I need to learn in life is that I can do anything I want but I can’t necessarily do everything I want. I have to choose and focus. That’s hard. Actually, maybe I can do everything I want – just not all at once. Rose Kennedy [...]

I wish I played a musical instrument because I think this is the coolest project ever! It’s such a wonderful and creative use of web technology.

Another sign of the recession – kids are making their own fun once again. The video is not sped up – they really are that fast.

Newspaper circulations have been declining for years but yesterday’s US election showed that print is not dead (yet). It seems everyone wanted a copy of the newspaper with the Obama victory front page to keep as a souvenir. In New York people queued in their lunch hour to buy already scarce copies of the New [...]

Although I didn’t stay up for the US election results, I was watching the news websites fairly closely on Tuesday to see which way it might swing. The moment I started seeing reports and photographs of the enormous queues and estimates of 130 million plus people voting, I felt pretty sure that a majority of [...]

Apparently, Obama’s great-great-great-great grandfather is Irish (thanks to Nichole Bernier for sharing the link on Twitter). Though further Googling on this topic reveals that Obama’s forefather from a Protestant Irish family so this does not automatically make him the next JFK. It reminds me of the line in the movie The Commitments that “the Irish [...]

Congratulations to Barack Obama, the next president of the United States! I woke to the news on BBC Radio 4 this morning. I’d considered staying up late to watch but the UK is five hours ahead of the US East Coast so proper coverage wasn’t even going start until 11pm. The result came earlier than [...]

(link via Mark Jones on Filtered Media).