To get the taste of the holidays out of you mouth, whether it be turkey and suppressed anger from time with the family, or the taste of a gun barrel and tears if you are alone, here is a little Calvin and Hobbes.

Happy Christy Hollidays

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled ’till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.

http://www.rob-sheridan.com/sketchblog/2007/10/wallpapers.html

Happy several days off work to all, and to all an enjoyable long weekend.

And to end on a high note:

Diary of Frosty the Snowman
http://francescoexplainsitall.blogspot.com/2007/12/diary-of-frosty-snowman.html

That’s what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown.

Some pics from my trip.  I didn’t take many pictures because I really didn’t leave the beach except to eat and sleep longer than needed to be counted as a nap.

You know the Google adwords system is working when you see ads for sites like this popping up at the top here:

We specialize in XXXL tshirts only and work directly with our
printer to bring the best tshirt designs direct to the customer.

http://stores.ebay.com/The-Bigger-Geek

I’m turning on some Jack Handy action. Love the thoughts.

This plugin displays one Deep Thought with Jack Handy from SNL on your WordPress blog a day. (See my sidebar – at main or on a page – for a live example.)

http://spoken-for.org/archives/2005/02/22/810/

Since I actually have a much better way to write posts now (Live Writer) you might see more long, rambling posts.  I tend to write big rants and such late at night, but either post them to my other sites (and later delete the site) or email them to the select few suckers that I feel like harrasing.  We’ll see if that changes.

I have migrated the site back to Wordpress.  I’m not having as much time to work on functionality I want in the site, so I figured I would try this again.  Migrating all the system data back is mostly done, but you may notice more bugs than usual for a while.  Oh well.

I'm testing some stuff with Bloglines, so you may notice some weird things happeneing.

<!– ckey="79C00FE5" –>

http://www.bloglines.com/public/chrismeredith

I'm testing out some caching, so let me know if you notice a speedup, or, more likely, error messages.

http://monkeyattack.com/

You may notice some Consumating questions appearing around here.  Once again, I'm testing a few things with xmlrpc support.  Next up I'm working on a full xmlrpc interface to Monkey Attack to make integration with services like Consumating and applications like Live Writer easier.

Oh, and I'm sad and need votes:

http://consumating.com/profiles/Monkey_Attack