Archive for December 2003

My old favorite as reported in Lockergnome. I love Robert Burns’ words, although there is some argument he borrowed some someone else and that the words are never said correctly, but I don’t want to start a debate here. This is the version I like:

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And auld lang syne?

For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet,
For auld lang syne!

Then someone sent this to me. It’s nice, too.

A Way to a Happy New Year

To leave the old with a burst of song
To recall the right and forgive the wrong;
To forget the thing that binds you fast
To the vain regrets of the year that’s past;
To have the strength to let go your hold
Of the not worthwhile of the days grown old,
To dare to go forth with a purpose true,
To the unknown task of the year that’s new;
To help your brother along the road
To do his work and lift his load;
To add your gift to the world’s good cheer,
Is to have and to give a Happy New Year.

- Robert Brewster Beattie

Everyone has Let It Snow playing, so I dug up my two year old version of the song, Let Us Blog. Man, I miss those days when I had time to get creative without being rushed.

I decided to bring you a spoken version as I did everything I could to avoid singing for obvious reason. Here’s your chance to hear my voice up close and personal. Much apologies for the screeching you’re about to hear. Oh, and enjoy the baby chorus.

I didn’t get to venture out to admire the beautiful decorations around the Dallas area this year, but this site more than made up for it since I could enjoy them without doing any driving.

It’s the end of the year… meaning time for LIST-mania! Merriam-Webster, dictionary king, shares its Words of the Year for 2003, the ten most frequently looked up words. [Link: ResearchBuzz]

My sweet secret santa got me The Book of Three, a book that my entire family can read. Thank you, Heather!

I hope the one on the receiving end is happy with the two books I sent.

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate!

Take this Quiz to see how grammatically correct or incorrect you are. Yes, I took it and I missed one – #7.

The writer of The Weakest Link: Social Engineering, demonstrates an important point that the problem with corporate security could be our own fault.

Recently, a story involving a type 2 user (see the article) made the local news. A retail store hired a printer to print a one-page flyer promoting a sale on one of its products. An employee finished proofing the ad on the computer and left for a moment. Another employee saw the work and sat at the desk and changed one line of the ad as a prank. 17,000 copies went out in the mail and offended many of its recipients. The impacts of not protecting your computer can go beyond the company and into the customers’ hands. Image how much time it will take to undo such a mistake.

That made me stand up and take notice. So, I lock my computer at work every time even if it is just to go to the printer, which is 10 seconds from my desk but not in full view.

I try not to get in habit of announcing every issue of some of the better e-zines and enewsletters out there, but once in a while one of them comes up with a creative way to explain things. Optimization Week, which covers optimizing Web sites, reports Santa is being slowed down by slow shopping sites with scrooge-style response times.

Meryl does the dance of joy! User Friendly now has an RSS feed among a few others. Just waiting for Joy of Tech to join the RSS revolution!

I had reviewed MyIE2, a similar to, but better than Internet Explorer browser. I didn’t keep it since I rarely keep the software I review otherwise I’d have an overloaded computer. After getting a note from Chris about an IE Address Bar Spoofing Test, I was convinced it’s time to use MyIE instead of plain ol’ IE.

There’s some great plug-ins and skins to enhance its functionality. Plain ol’ IE kept crashing on me as of late. It probably got corrupted somewhere and it was interfering with my work. No more with MyIE and plus, you get the benefit of tabs. I’m reviewing a bunch of Web sites for awards and it calls for a lot of JavaScript. Instead of an annoying pop up, it becomes a new tab. I love this. No more resizing or moving the pop up window to my desired size.