You know it has been a good long vacation when one of your teenage sons forgets to get up for school.

Tree is up, driveway is staked, and snowblower has been cranked up. We are officially ready for the holiday season.

Christmas tree is up, but no 14-footers this year. The 12-footer we did get looks puny in comparison. http://yfrog.com/3741isj

Just blogged my advertising count holiday prediction: Black Friday shopping promises to be the best in past five years. http://bit.ly/4V7kwP

Just received my copy of The Visual Miscellaneum. If you love the art of information visualization, buy this book. http://bit.ly/5GQaxJ

Black Friday ads pages in Boston Globe up 17% over 2008 count, suggests the economy is improving. Blog tomorrow on blogs.yankeegroup.com.

RT @FakeAPStylebook: For balance, Thanksgiving articles should also contain quotes from devastated turkey families.

Even on vacation, I couldn’t resist blogging: Murdoch’s Bing bluster will hurt News Corp, not Google http://bit.ly/5i2nja

What Google should say to Rupert Murdoch: “Make my day: Sign your Bing deal, update your robots.txt file, and kiss online growth goodbye.”

Google Chrome OS promises to be the first truly Anywhere OS. It lives and dies by ubiquitous connectivity. http://j.mp/405vq1