- announcing my New Year's resolution: Ending conflict in Iraq, by myself. (Hey, if the Pres doesn't ask for my ideas, not my fault!)

officially ready for 09. Hope above optimism, in all circumstances.

- wondering why I've got a lookalike on screen in tonight's episode of The Bill!

enjoying an Aussie Christmas: Dog already exhausted. Connected with family via mobile calls, on 'speaker'. Testing limits of the 'AA's.

loving time with my girls.

getting ready to wrap, not rap... although I can do that too if you ask me in rhyme, holding a boom box on your shoulder.

A question. What is the best newspaper? NY Times? Wall Street Journal? Straits Times? Le Monde? Another?

Empower CC sent a Merry Christmas to the community tonight. Well done to all.

Only few more sleeps til Christmas, & we Aussies are bound to arrive earlier than our US friends. Sorry guys. It's how we roll.

spare time...

Love the serenity of nature and words, words and God's creation.

proud of my girls.

disturbed by the inadequacies of social security, as outlined during broadcasts this week: www.npr.org

wondering what the inauguration speech will centre on.

in the clouds...

Been thinking a bit lately, and experimenting, with the value of the cloud. No, I'm not getting off the deck of the planet's surface with lofty time-wasting... rather, appreciating and testing the value of online living.

Moving from the early ideas of desk-bound communication, our mobile world follows us rather than being a place that we access from single points beyond our daily lives. Even in 1975, there was a preview of the advantages... have a look at these slides!

• Gmail, Picasa, me.com, online storage and backup, Google calendar

Sure, there are some dangers... NPR presented a report that's got some helpful cautionary value to it.

But I'm prepared to embrace the good of the new before fearing the bad of its shortcomings. Yeah, I'm cautious and conscious of security... but the online world is a resource to use rather than run from in a sweat.

love getting the washing done! And twittering away the occasional thought in my online clouds - now how's that for multi-skilling?

counting the days to the inauguration.

very encouraged!

loving Kung Fu Panda. Jack Black is pure awesomeness! http://ping.fm/zQNTW

loving a status update as an expressive communication tool... and a little bit of a statement of one's personality: http://ping.fm/QpgxR