@JeffreyBreen Your experience with DirecTV just shows how much they disliked paying TiVO more than $1 billion for patent infringement.

Good timing: we got the Christmas tree lit in time for the first snowfall of the year.

I keep walking by the Quincy Market Christmas tree hoping to see its resident Barred Owl, but so far it has eluded me.

Just switched home network to #Google DNS from one #OpenDNS and one #Comcast DNS server. Yup, Internet now goes faster.

Drove my son to school in a rainy Nor’easter, and now walking to work in lovely 60 degree sun. This is December?

RT @monkchips: @Gartner_inc Gartner agrees to Acquire AMR Research, Inc. http://bit.ly/71BFeq Sounds to me like the economy has improved.

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