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I thought about wishing people Happy Holidays, hoping that would be generic enough to not offend anyone, and to include all, but I guess some people do not celebrate any holidays, and I don’t want to anger those people by excluding them. Then I though of wishing people Happy Something, but believe it or not, there are people who really don’t want to be happy, or at least don’t want anyone telling them to be happy. So Holidays is out, and Happy is out. I then though I should just say End of Year! thinking that, you know, it is the end of the calendar year, right? Can we all agree on that? What? Some people don’t use the same calendar? ugh… screw it…

End!

Those evil folks at Google published their 2005 Zeitgeist, so I thought I’d see how hip I am (or ain’t) by checking their lists…

Google.com – Top Gainers of 2005

1. Myspace – I’ve used it. The UI is a nightmare. Not for people over 25.
2. Ares – no clue…
3. Baidu – no clue…
4. wikipedia – Yes, I’ve edited the Podcasting page…
5. orkut – Probably haven’t used it since January 2005.
6. iTunes – Use it daily.
7. Sky News – no clue…
8. World of Warcraft – A videogame, right? Have not played it…
9. Green Day – Knew these guys back in the early 1990s when Al Sob was in the band…
10. Leonardo da Vinci – Crazy inventor guy. He’s cool.

Google News – Top Searches in 2005

1. Janet Jackson – don’t care…
2. Hurricane Katrina – bad news, sucked big time.
3. tsunami – bad news, sucked big time.
4. xbox 360 – don’t care…
5. Brad Pitt – don’t care…
6. Michael Jackson – don’t care… scares me…
7. American Idol – don’t care…
8. Britney Spears – don’t care…
9. Angelina Jolie – don’t care… (no, really!)
10. Harry Potter – Saw a movie, was ok, have not read the books.

Froogle – Top Searches in 2005

1. ipod – Despite my (helping in) inventing podcasting :) I still don’t have one.
2. digital camera – Had one, it broke, now my phone takes my photos.
3. mp3 player – I have one, or three.
4. ipod mini – Don’t have one of these either. (But my cousin does.)
5. psp – Don’t have one. Would like one, even though Sony sucks.
6. laptop – Have a whole bunch of old, underpowered laptops.
7. xbox – Dont’ have one. Don’t want one.
8. ipod shuffle – What? No screen? Don’t want one.
9. computer desk – I have this! Woohoo!
10. ipod nano – Don’t have one. (Fingers are firmly crossed though!)

There ya go… 2005 in review, courtesy of the evil folks at Google, and the non-evil folks at RasterWeb!

Microsoft finally admitted IE/Mac is dead. Or will be dead shortly.

What about your Mac OS 9 friends? First of all, they might want to upgrade to Mac OS X. Apple has made amazing strides in the last 6 years… (Yes, I do know people still running Mac OS 9.) The last time I had to deal with Mac OS 9 browsers I picked WaMCom, which is basically Mozilla.

In all honestly, I’ll miss IE. I mean, think of the humor that will be lost!

Yo… We’re looking for a Linux Server Admin who wants a full time gig. you should know Apache and Tomcat and MySQL, and it would be nice if you knew a bit about JSP, PHP and Perl as well. When I say “know” I mean “know how to keep these things running and optimized on a bunch of Linux servers” and not “know how to write code in PHP, Perl, Java…”

So anyway, are you a Linux Server Admin? Do you know one? Get in touch with me… Thanks…