David and friends made Famous Chocolate cookie cake. Compared with other New Years’ celebrations, it has the virtue that he’ll remember it.

Hooray! Hadley Wickham has a new #Rstats package out to process strings more elegantly. http://bit.ly/eiIMGC

RT @JeffreyBreen Cool to see #Facebook using R and ggplot2 to answer “What’s on your mind?” (+ #Hadoop #Hive ..) http://ow.ly/3w9O1 #rstats

Happy 18th birthday to son Robert! Now you are stuck with being an adult the rest of your life.

Slow news week: my quote in Wash Post re Amazon’s gifting patent has shown up everywhere, including today’s Globe. http://wapo.st/f4OiT5

Gruber re Android v Apple: “Why not ask what happens to Honda if everyone decides to buy $8000 Chinese automobiles? http://bit.ly/dYFmzm #yg

Having quite the blizzard here tonight. Hoping we keep power — lows are supposed to be about 10 tomorrow.

@fiberguy I lost my afternoon to Civ V, but don’t like the fact it is about 4x slower than my old Civ III, yet on faster hardware.

Happily enjoying one of my Christmas presents: Civilization V. Nice way to spend Boxing Day.

The ultimate geek gift: I gave my sons domain names for Christmas. 🙂