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TAKING A PAGE from Chicago Public Radio, I started ringing around the far-flung family to capture memories of Christmas. The production values aren't as good as Public Radio International's but as a one-pass [36.6 MB 96 kbps MP3 file] podcast, it hoovers up some of the best Christmas cheer that landed in my earbuds during the past fortnight.
Check out our Christmas pictures.
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EVER WONDER what Microsoft Live considers to be the best podcasts on the planet? We grabbed the screenshot for posterity. Our playlist of podcasts is pretty slim. Holiday visitors liked the stuff we've collected from "This American Life" the best.
Our referrers told us this interesting fact on Boxing Day.
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LITTLE THINGS are making the sitting room back into a communal space under my roof. The latest welcome addition--the Samsung HT-Q20 digital home cinema system. I got it as a loving Christmas present. Within a few hours, everybody present started hearing noises from behind the couches and one felt the subwoofer vibration under the cushions. Suddenly, every DVD in the house took on a new dimension.
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Students join sand sculpture artists to create a 30-meter-long (100-foot-long) Santa Claus sculpture on the Puri golden beach, in the Indian state of Orissa on the eve of Christmas, Sunday, Dec. 24, 2006. Though Hindus and Muslims comprise the majority of the population in India, Christmas is celebrated with much fanfare.
(AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout)
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HAPPY CHRISTMAS from Cashel, County Tipperary, Ireland! If you're curious about our Christmas, check out our Christmas photostream.
Posted automagically after Christmas embargo.
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I PAID FOR an early Christmas present--thank you, Liam. It flew in from San Jose. It's just a steno Moleskine notebook but more than that, it's part of the daily process that has served me better than any other highly digital organiser. After using Moleskines one and off for a decade, I look back on dust-covered splines and reflect on the snippets written, stories unfinished.
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FIRST TIME IN 2006: I have read all the items in my Google Reader. It's time to increase my subscriptions from 123 to 150. Over the past 30 days, I have read 2,998d items, starred 30 and shared none.
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WE ARE FULL THROTTLE running into a supersized Christmas dinner and now know we don't have enough of each item to serve eight people simultaneously. We night have known that would be the result of letting two cats and a dog occasionally use proper bowls for their own. The plan: chef stands and serves and no one is the wiser.
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ONE YEAR AFTER moving into a new house, our Bosch Classixx washing machine stopped running normal wash cycles. It would stop before rinsing and even when the rinse mode was manually selected, it would not rinse. This started happening at the worst time--in the winter. I have never seen a Bosch appliance roll over and die after a year so I wonder if something else was causing the washing machine to stop working. A little investigation suggested that new floor tiles in the house (see left) was contributing to the problem.
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TODAY is the shortest day of the year but sunshine in Ireland is definitely more generous than in Fairbanks, Alaska, where I spent weeks of winter in another life. In Fairbanks, you get three hours and 42 minutes of sun today.
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