Meryl's Notes Blog

So many Web talent shared their thoughts on the future of the independent Web. It was inspiring to read the diverse thoughts and ideas. The ones that hit home with me were Nick Finck, Carole Guevin, Molly Holzschlag, Shirley Kaiser, Maurice Wright, and Jeffrey Zeldman. I look forward to whatever is next up the id’s sleeves. Kudos to the team for making this happen. It was a lot of work!

NextDraft reported that Barbie gets a tatoo! Oh dear, this is gonna make it harder for some of us to tell our daughters that tatoos are not acceptable in our families.

Also from NextDraft, Shrub is expected to sign legislation that will extend the moratorium on Internet taxes for another two years.

The movie that everyone is talking about is Harry Potter and I admit I joined the crowd and attended it on opening day yesterday. I rarely ever attend movies much less on opening day, but I went with a team of people who reserved tickets in advance. If I felt better while seeing the movie, it would’ve been a truly enjoyable afternoon. I’ll appreciate it more when I see it on home video with captions and sans headache. The movie theater volume was too loud for even this hearing aid wearer. The effects were superb and the Quidditch match (think witch rugby) was something else! Movie gets gig’em Ags (For you non-Texans - Texas A&M’s hand sign for gig’em is thumb up) from me. You want reviews? All right, I’ll give you reviews!

Just learned about Friday’s Five from Christine and it’s cool. Gonna give it a shot:

1. Name five things in your refrigerator: soy milk, 27 cans of soda, 15 bottles of water, string cheese, coffee
2. Name five things in your freezer: expensive peanut butter jelly uncrustables for picky kids, Gevalia coffee, fish sticks, frozen brocolli, frozen edamame beans
3. Name five things under your kitchen sink: window cleaner, furniture cleaner, dishwashing tabs, SOS, kitchen cleaner
4. Name five things around your computer: PDA cradle, VisiBone card, Netgear Firewall Router, covered mug with water, Hot Wheel cars
5. How do you plan to spend your weekend? Keeping son out of trouble