Sunday, December 05, 2004

Heard on the Inkernet: "The election is over, the talking is done. My side has lost, and your side has won. Now let's all pull together, let bitterness pass. I'll hug your elephant. You kiss my ass." 

Chris Pirillo: "You know the idea of syndication is hitting the mainstream when pseudo-geeks can rattle off an acronym without batting an eyelash." 

BBC: "Musicians are embracing the internet as a way of reaching new fans and selling more music, a survey has found." 

Charlene Li (Forrester Research) reviews MSN Spaces. 

Scoble: "Yesterday had a wonderful Channel 9 interview with another Microsoft team too. Oh, this is gonna be a fun one. I can't talk about it, but they are working very hard to make sure that Santa has a little gift for all of you that you'll like. I hope they get it done, I was very suprised at it. Speechless, actually." 

This being the audio Christmas, I recorded one of my favorite short stories as a child, The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry. It's a story about love and sacrifice, it's a funny story, but a simple one that children can understand. If you have a child nearby, let me tell them a story, along with you.  

Adam outlines his bandwidth predicament in Guilford. 

Red Herring: "Sony forces one blogger to take down the audio spoiler of this year’s Jeopardy season, while letting The Washington Post and a Georgia television station off the hook." 

Heather, in marketing, at Microsoft: "I just feel a little bit like the bumble-bee girl in the video trying to find my bumble-bee peeps." 

On this day in 2001, the story of Nurse, the most amazing cat. 

Speaking of amazing cats, I spoke with Dave Jacobs yesterday. He had his kidney transplant on Friday. He sounded weak, but there was a quality to his voice, a certain health, that I don't think I had ever heard before. He was up, out of bed already, sitting in a chair. He said he couldn't believe how hard it was to get there. They don't let you lie around after surgery because that's how you get pneumonia. When I had my heart surgery two years ago, they got me out of bed the very next morning to eat my breakfast. No breakfast in bed for this pup. Anyway, I hardly know what to think about Dave. I've known for over ten years that this day was coming. For quite a while it seemed it never would. That's the amazing thing about life, it's a wild ride, you just can't tell what's coming next. 

Lisa Rein is getting ready to podcast.