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.

This afternoon, David and I intend to make our first batch of holiday spritz cookies. We have 1.5 lbs of Plugra butter softening….

iPad iOS 4.2 downloading. Am amazed at bandwidth Apple’s servers deliver despite everyone hammering at once — 4.2 must be Akamaized.

@fiberguy Official word is that 4.2 will be made available at 1000 am PST. It is now 818 am PST.

RT @johnmnbarnes BBC – Diagrams that changed the world http://bbc.in/cQlGAr Wise lessons here for verbose industry analysts! (via @cmendler)