Upgraded my 2007 MacBook Pro to 6 GB memory. Feels like a new machine! Wish the 1 key on the keyboard worked tho — it died a few days ago.

Unpublicized iOS 4.2 feature: iPhone 4s implement fast dormancy to reduce signaling traffic on mobile networks. #yg http://bit.ly/dTwvEq

Spent the afternoon exploring cluster analysis in R and interactively visualized correlations with ggobi. No hard results but learned lots.

In my annual “count all the ads in the Thanksgiving Boston Globe” effort, I found 818 pages this year. That’s up 16 percent over last year.

Got up early and got our 14-foot Christmas tree from Honeypot Orchards down the hill. The big trees go quickly.

Black Friday Christmas shopping is so much more productive from my computer. Not having to go out in the rain today makes online even better

The wild turkeys around our house are nowhere to be found today. Coincidence? Happy Turkey Day regardless.

@JeffreyBreen Because new copies are sold to “new” customers (cough cough….) that are valued more than locked-in old customers. 🙁

@JeffreyBreen In addition to VMware, Parallels is also running a $39.99 upgrade price to v6 today. One can’t have too many virtual machines.