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I don’t want this to sound too harsh, but sometimes I get tagged by these Internet memes and it just grates on my nerves until they’re raw.

What I mean to say is, of course, I’m flattered that my friends thought about me enough to actually want to know random facts about me and include me in the meme.  The problem is when I’m tagged with something like this, it lurks in my Inbox with a follow-up flag that waves at me every time I open my email.  “Hey, guy.  Remember, there’s some folks out there that want to know all kinds of random shit about you.  Isn’t it time you ponied up?”  It’s about as annoying as those bouncing icons in the dock that want attention.  “Hey!  You!  Me!  Click me!  Hey!  Hello!”

Rather than spend an inordinate amount of time trying to pump out information about Macworld 2009, I thought it would be more appropriate to soak in the entire show and let my brain stew on it a little bit.  I twittered the keynote quite a bit, so that was me trying to play journalist.  For the rest of the week, I intended to take part in the show and ignore the fact that I was collected information to share.

For those of you who are interested in the Macworld keynote that will be occurring tomorrow… I have a guaranteed seat to attend and am planning to Twitter the presentation as it occurs.

I said planning. That does not include getting busted by any Apple employees or whatnot.

So just in case you are wondering if I’m conscious of the New Year… yes, I am.  Believe it or not 🙂

I have just three resolutions this year and they’re quite personal.  I’ll share them with you, intrepid reader, since you can keep a secret.

• Do better at maintaining my temper, blood pressure and sanity.
• Sleep better.
• Lose 80 pounds by last December 2009.

Think I can do it?  Who knows.  I have a gym membership, so I’m armed.

Last week I had to do some serious debugging on storage copy replication.  We discovered that one of our SCC clusters had decided to quit replicating to the SCR node at the other site.  We’re not sure why (we think it’s because the SCR node was rebooted and replication was not cleanly suspended), but the ramifications of failed replication are interesting.

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Did anyone catch the memo?  The one that said Apple is done with Macworld after this year because they want to announce products on their own timeline?  Yeah that one.  I thought you saw that one.

From the Philadelphia news leader: Woman charged with raping boy, 14 – 12/29/08 – Philadelphia News – 6abc.com.

Just a quick post to point out that I’m radically happy my family is nowhere near this f-ed up.

The installers kept the appointment this time around – as of today we have Dish Network added to our plasma box of glory.  So far it’s good.  We ate breakfast while watching bizarre shows from the other side of the planet.

It’s amazing how quickly the wife tired of it 😉  That was a quick Americanization.

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One of the fortunes I’ve had this year was to finally obtain a “real” TV set to replace the small dinky tube I’ve had since I moved out of my house.  In case you’re wondering, that’s about 19 years ago.

Abit’s Death Date Reportedly Set: 31st of December, 2008 – X-bit labs.

Even though I don’t care too much about building PCs anymore, this is sad, sad news.  ABIT is shutting down completely at the end of this year.

However, on a positive note – at least that narrows down motherboard selections for enthusiasts.