Here it is, the end of another year. I don’t really have a lot of “looking back at the past year” thoughts at the moment, but I haven’t in previous years, either. Oh well. Have fun tonight with whatever your planned festivities are, and try not to get caught in one of those sobriety checkpoints. Spending New Year’s Day in detox sounds like a particularly bad plan.
On the home front, I just finished cooking myself breakfast for the first time ever on the stove in my house. The kitchen isn’t quite ready for full production yet, but it’s getting closer and more boxes are empty. Woo!
- Says here Just about anything can be turned into a drinking game and then they point to the Barmeister list of drinking games which looks pretty useful. And then there’s the obligatory cautionary story: Winners can turn out to be losers in drinking games which warns that you might get drunk while playing a drinking game. Have a good New Year’s Eve, whether you’re boozing or not. [press-patch]
- Here are National Review Online’s 2004 Predictions so you know what to expect in the coming year. [fark!]
- Russell Beattie says he wants people to SMS him for New Year’s.
- “Urban explorers” released pending additional review. Their names are given, but still no information about whether they’re part of an organized group or not. Action Squad has disavowed any knowledge of their actions. [press-patch]
- Gibson is updating the Les Paul to be The 100-Megabit Guitar with an ethernet output and no analog out. Nobody quite seems to be sure why, though. [fark!]
- Al Qaeda videos found in Iraq weapons raid. But hey, there’s still no proof of a connection, right? [instapundit]
- As if I didn’t already have enough to do this month, I decided to do a redesign of Dave’s Picks, as I mentioned yesterday. I started with the code from Two Columns - Right Menu and hacked it about a bit to fit my needs better. I’ve also started looking at the article on creating custom corners and borders at A List Apart and hope to get nice round corners on those white boxes. But I also realized that I have to go back and make some small changes to nearly every page on the site, so it will probably be well into January before this is complete. Many of the changes are just bringing old pages up to XHTML 1.0 so it’s a good thing, but it still looks like a lot bigger project than I first thought. [zeldman]