I have absolutely nothing interesting to write today.

We had Thanksgiving dinner at a country club up in Purchase, NY with Lisa's extended family.  Other than the nightmarish drive in the hard rain with the other 15 million New Yorkers going to or from Thanksgiving gatherings, the dinner was fine. We are spending the weekend in Amagansett, Frisket needs some beach time.

Upcoming travels

We're going to Paris next weekend for a friend's birthday (see, I'm not the only one doing "destination birthday" for the 40th).  The following weekend I'm going to Austin to work on a project over the course of the weekend.  The following week I'm going to Chicago for a day to check in on the family and rack up air miles.  So far, the weekend after that (the 16th) is free of travel.  So far. Then for Christmas we're flying to Miami for a long weekend.

Frisket is not amused by all of this travel.  Bribing her with treats seems to win her over temporarily.

I'm playing with a redesign for my business site. As I'm prohibited by law in a number of jurisdictions from practicing design, I'm trying to keep it low key. Previews can be seen by going to http://artific.com/202/v4.html and clicking around on any links that have "v4.html" in the URL (I haven't converted everything over, and some pages still are in the default MovableType design).

I was going to write up a whole tale about the fabled v6 redesign of www.ibm.com which occurred ten years ago this week. But I think I'll leave that to another time. The only interesting lesson from that redesign was: don't launch a redesign the day before everyone leaves for the holidays. Alternately: if you do launch a redesign the day before everyone leaves for the holidays, make sure that you're the first person out the door.

I am in the market for a new wireless keyboard. I have a Logitech Cordless Keyboard which is about two years old. About two months ago the space bar sort of got stuck (perhaps as a result of soda being poured onto the keyboard by a certain canine). It cleaned up mostly well, but the space bar kept sticking, so I took apart the keyboard last weekend. The space bar worked again, briefly, now it is sticking again. And all of the function keys have ceased working.

What I really want is a decent, lightweight cordless keyboard with a TrackPoint so I don't have to keep reaching for a mouse. But between IBM's PC Division ineptitude, the resulting spinoff to Lenovo, and the question of who actually owns the licenses for the Trackpoint, I doubt I'll see a wireless keyboard with Trackpoint mouse soon.

I'm not even sure I've seen wireless keyboards with track pads or thumb pads or whatever they're called.

So, great Interweb, here's your assignment: produce for me a wireless keyboard with TrackPoint mouse.

Thank you.

I'm writing this in Performancing, a plugin for Firefox. Why is it so difficult to come up with a simple authoring tool (my nit for Performancing: I had to switch to tag mode to enter a <h3> tag earlier)?

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