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I survived Christmas in South Lake Tahoe. You can find out more info at Alannas site.

I got lots of fun stuff for xmas. New sneakers and USB Flash memory sticks, books and lots of other goodies. Now it’s time for New Years.

btw: Heavenly Ski Resort Sucks. and I will repeat this often on my blog.

Since Alanna and I will be heading out to South Lake Tahoe tomorrow for christmas we decided to open presents tonight.

I got:
A Zen Book
USB Flash memory (Which works right from my MAC keyboard, sweet!)
New Pumas
A nice new USB mouse.
The most super 4 DISC set of West Coast jazz I have every seen.
Some T-shirts from American Apparel

We are having our xmas dinner here.

I am stoked. Now we are off tomorrow for some snowboarding.
Sweet!

I went around town today giving out nice xmas baskets for my work. It was nice to get out and says hello to clients and give them a little care package.

Merry Christmas Everybody.

Alanna and I were babysitting tonight. It just so happens it was a night where a third of the city was without power. I would say the Oona took it pretty good. We lite some candles and played a DVD on Alanna’s laptop and played shadow puppets, sang some songs about Power Puff girls and had some pasta.

Later on Alanna and I went out for a drink around the corner at Murios Trophy room. They were serving drinks by candle light and playing songs on a boombox.

Found a nice little place to have xmas dinner in South Lake Tahoe. nepheles.com Now all we have to do is make it through a couple more days and probable a snowstorm car trip.

This comment from SWB posted on Slashdot about “Microsoft’s New Core OS Team Learning from Linux” I think hits the nail on the head.

Perhaps an organizational change is entirely appropriate and the right thing. I don’t think that anyone would seriously argue that MS doesn’t have any good developers.

What they seem plagued by are marketing-driven technologies that keep getting bolted on to Windows, broadening the code base and making the overall focus of the development harder for anyone to see. This level of integration may make IIS faster or enable easier functionality for some third party development, also makes it hard to define what Windows core is and who’s responsible for it.

A group of developers focused on the core of Windows (kernel, networking, filesystem) should be able to better focus on making it work well and keep security at a higher level, among other things.

The real challenge will be who defines what the core of Windows is, and what they define it to be. If they allow the scope of Windows core to be everything you get in C:\ after installing the OS, it won’t be more than cosmetic. However, if they define it succintly and at least internally acknowledge that the kernel, the filesystem and the networking code is the core, and other stuff like IIS or Internet Explorer is not, this could mean real benefits for Windows.

For all of my friends and family who opened their christmas cards from Alanna and I and said “What the?”

Relax, it’s a Haiku. It’s not some sort of bizarre christmas clue.

I had this great idea for doing a simple animated card in Flash that you could easily make and burn onto a CD. Then I turned on my MAC and it already did that.

After a nice breakfast today, Alanna has been a baking maniac. Churning out cookies. I guess I am the designated taste tester. mmmmmm this is a job I can sink my teeth into.

I think the caption should be “You better vote for us!!” “Listen to the old man!!” Everything is perfect. The way the two of them are looking right at the camera, with their heads tilted.

I almost didn’t get to vote. I got to the polling place with 2 minutes to spare. Close but no cigar, sorry Matt.