Log Box

Jack has posted the Winter version of saturn.org.

Have a safe New Years Eve. I mean that. I’ll be back tomorrow with a year end wrap up.

Via Zeldman, Mappa.Mundi Magazine is back online. A great site that has some incredible content.

My copy of The Art of the Matrix arrived this morning. This is a must have book if you are a Matrix fanatic. It includes the storyboards and comic type treatments that were used in making the movie. Really high quality stuff and very interesting to compare to the final products. I’ve now dug out the DVD and am going to spend this afternoon in a Matrix induced haze.

For the head of the company, Jeff Bezos has a remarkably long Wish List. Maybe he’s trying to drum up some business.

I’ve got some issues.

When Media One got bought by AT&T Broadband a few months ago, I had hoped that the service would improve, as Media One has been really really bad. Cable service is interrupted on a regular basis. Today, despite a confirming phone call about my appointment last night, they decided to not come out and service my cable. This terrible customer service is the most compelling reason for me to go with some sort of dish solution. They weren’t apologetic at all, and wouldn’t work with me about the reschedule at all. More evidence about the disturbing decline in customer service in today’s corporate world.

I’ve watched a bunch of movies over the last week that I’ve been meaning to get around to for a while. Virgin Suicides was the one that stands out most from the pack. Somber and intelligently delightful, with an amazing soundtrack, it will stick with me for a while. Also really entertaining was Bring it On. Kirsten Dunst was great in both movies.

I had a great holiday. I feel recharged. It’s not about gifts, or eating tons of food, but about spending time with people I care about. I wish, very much, that I could have spent the holiday with my family, but I did get to curl up on the couch with my sweetie, and that was the next best thing.

Here’s wishing you a happy holiday. Bumping will resume on Tuesday.

American Airlines | aa.com is generating a nice big fat error message. Gotta love that Broadvision.(It’s fixed now, but it was down for over an hour.)

The New York Giants, my team of choice, managed to clinch the NFC East last night. They are, I’ll admit, in a pretty weak division in comparison to say, the AFC East, but I’ll take it.