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Merry Christmas Y'all

Merry Christmas!

Acquainted with the Night

This is a Robert Frost poem.. I thought I'd post it and see if anyone had any of their own opinions or would like to attempt to analyze it. I love the feeling of loneliness, apathy and sadness it evoked in me upon reading it this morning... certain areas of the poem being particularly poignant. I thought I'd paste it and see if anyone had any thoughts.

I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain - and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.

I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street,

But not to call me back or say good-bye;
And further still at an unearthly height,
One luminary clock against the sky

Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night.

Other news (and life is strange but that is a longer and more involved story): Justin won standby tickets on Qantas from his Corp Comm team Christmas Party, so it looks like we will be visiting Australia and New Zealand sometime next year (I am particularly interested in the latter).

Will Google Shutdown Wikipedia?

I have read only this morning that Google is coming out with a Wikipedia-esque content system. You can read about it on Google's Blog here. A great follow-up article can be found here. I especially like (well, fear really) what the author points out about search results.

Justin, I hope your admiration and love for Google is depleting, because I feel that, in the name of free-happy-go-lucky services they're really destroying the beauty and diversity of the world wide web by taking it over with their freaky, unlimited enterprise. Blah. Sad that I feel that way but I am so tired of Google developing (and destroying) one thing after another just to turn a profit.

What Google is proposing sounds an awful lot like about.com to me since articles are written by experts in the same manner that About.com is sort of owned by experts. I know a lot of people get onto Wikipedia's case because you cannot site precisely who wrote which bit of information and therefore cannot prove 100% accuracy. However, I personally am so tired of the web existing strictly for personal or business promotion. One beautiful thing about Wikipedia is that it exists mostly for knowledge and not self-promotion - it's faceless. Google's Knols will definitely abolish this small shred of purity. *sigh*

Babies' 1st Snow!

Ruby watching the snow fall

Onboard WiFi - Only on JetBlue

Sorry everyone else who has been trying to do this. But..