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Corporate Holiday Cards. I am starting to receive holiday greeting cards from companies and business associates, as I do every year. I am sure my own firm will send some out. Call me cold and unfeeling, but I won’t be sending any out to business partners and associates.

I don?t personally feel a warm connection with a firm when I receive these ? I know that someone somewhere just had their admin machinery crank them out. The sincerity is not there. And it costs time and money that we could all put to better use. Occasionally I do get a very personal greeting that someone sends out, those are different and I respect those.

But if you are a business partner of mine, take this as your greeting, and know that instead of spending time and money sending out cards, I’ll be spending a little more time on business issues that matter, a little more time with loved ones, spending a little less money on expenses, and spending a little more helping out those who really need help this holiday season. Happy Holidays!

Software for routers. From Marc Cantor – Marc’s Voice

And if home networking - SOHO routers are increasing in sales - they’ll need software to run on them

Rob and Steve, take note.

Vin Baker. SportingNews.com - NBA : Baker blames slow start on foul play – whatever. This trade has worked out so well for the Sonics. Even if Kenny, Vitaly, and Forte don’t play a minute all season. And Kenny is showing signs of life, he made a good contribution in the win over the Nets the other night.

Andromeda. Think I’ve posted this before but a reminder to self to try Andromeda personal streaming server. Oh and Phil – I haven’t forgotten about the thing you sent me to try out, just been buried with some site/net maintenance issues under the cover.

RCA Scenium DRS7000N. Judging by my referrals, a lot of people are interested in this DVD/PVR combo. I happen to have it on good authority that I am getting one for Christmas, I’ll post a review up here as soon as I get it. Hey if you post enough comments, maybe you can convince C to give it to me early, so that I can post a review faster…

TiVo posting to blog. I am very jealous of Matt’s work to post his TiVo use to his blog. I am very scared to hack into my TiVo tho because it is the most “mission critical” box in the house – the family will flip out if it quits working. I really want a way to suck the data out without having to crack the case.

AOL pulls rug from under ‘Magic Carpet”. AOL has disbanded the Magic Carpet team. Is anyone really surprised? The history of industry consortiums that have come together with the sole purpose of countering some Microsoft initiative is not good. I remember viewing these consortiums with amusement because the members were never truly aligned on goals, they just all wanted to join in a Microsoft hate-fest, and that never leads to a viable software product. And it just wastes the time and energy of these companies.

What’s Wrong with Messenger 5.0. Besides all these problems (some of which don’t bother me), the biggest problem is the confusion between MSN Messenger and Windows Messenger, which are both now running on my system and fighting with each other. Blake, David, Chris – help!

Thoughts on WIFI evolution. Good reading.

High School Sports Trauma. Wow I feel terrible for the Lynden Christian team – The Seattle Times: High School Sports: Class 2A fooball semifinals: Lynden Christian drops ball with victory in its grasp

From northern tool. Lots of people have used to set off effects.

GB Ethernet. After a night of trying to move captured video files around, I am ready to sign up for gigabit ethernet. At least one site recommends the dlink product line – i hope they have a switch with more than 4 ports. Surprising little discussion of gigabit ethernet on the enthusiast sites based on my quick scan – for instance i found nothing on tom’s hardware. are people really not playing around with this in the home?

Fixing Messenger. Sam Gentile points me towards the fix, thanks Sam. Forementioned MSFT execs, I hope you guys get this unsnarled so I don’t have to tell my dad to exec RunDLL32.

Direct Print Standard. If this is done right, maybe this would let us get rid of print drivers altogether? If every printer understands the DPS standard, and it is rich enough to handle arbitrary page printing, can we get rid of the need to install printer drivers altogether? I hate the fact that every HP printer comes with 10M+ of goofy software, most of which is not very helpful.