To all my readers (all half-dozen or so of you!) I also wish you all a happy and prosperous 2007!
We’re spending a quiet holiday at home. Traditional dinner tomorrow night. Tuesday the rest of the family is heading south to Oregon to visit relatives. I’ll be working. I hope to use my spare time to wrap up my series of rants I started well over two months ago. I still owe you the answer to the Maxim Gorky riddle, which I promise before year’s end.
2007 looks like it will be an adventurous year for me and those close to me. I’m heading down to Macworld Expo in a few weeks to speak at the IT conference. Subject matter will be technical aspects of blogging (John Welch asked me to sit on a panel), and the session I developed with John, Julian Koh, and Shaun Redmond entitled “Total Network Awareness, which is focussed on one of my favorite subjects (though I never talk about it here), network monitoring systems. Should be fun.
The family are once again heading out to Colorado for our annual visit to my parents, along with the entire scattered Goolsbee clan – my siblings, their spouses and kids. They even have 802.11 now at mom & dad’s house! (whoo hoo! no more dialup!)
In February Christopher heads down to the southern hemisphere, to spend a a few months in Chile as an Exchange Student. He’ll be back in July (I’m thinking of cashing in the frequent flyer miles to head down there to pick him up… maybe get some MORE skiing in!) More on that later.
Summer of course brings the Jaguar out from hibernation and all sorts of fun… stay tuned.
–chuck
Happy holidays to you as well. Sounds like a busy year. I personally will be doing what I normally do, which is not much!
802.11 doesn’t mean no dialup Chuck 😉 – shared a modem with wireless for years… fun it was! …. but I know what you mean.
Hope the festive season goes well for you and your family – I’m back to work for 3 days and then we get another 4 off for New Year – need my leave for our travels in mid January… to the ‘big smoke’ in Aussie – the 4 left at home get to venture outside NZ for the first time! should be different…
Jerome
heh… true Jerome. In this case though it is “municipal wireless” a fashionable thing in some locations here in the US now. Where a city sets up a city-scales wireless network.
When (and where in) are you going over to Oz?
–chuck
municpal wireless sounds like a good idea to get to the lower end of the masses perhaps?
we are off to see the two oldest daughters in Melbourne and see some of Victoria… 16th to 28th January – not looking forward to the 42C days they have already had at times… plus all the bush fires are not good – the oldest daughter has a Ford wagon but the a/c is had it… damn! 🙁
Jerome