Bornfamous

Well, happy New Year. I’m still here. I’ve been working my big fat fanny off [I wish!] to finish a web site so I can focus on blogradio. Almost there!
Also, reading. Oy vey, have I been reading.

At every level of society from the family up to international relations, the key to a happier and more successful world is the growth of compassion. We do not need to become religious, nor do we need to believe in an ideology. All that is necessary is for each of us to develop our good [...]

It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
via and that’s joanne

Check ‘em out: SXSW Web Competition Entries, By Category

Worry and fear are a lot like a rocking chair: A whole lot of motion, but they don’t take you anywhere.
- Bo Lozoff,
We’re All Doing Time

BlogRadio: “Holy cow! We’re in Google already!” And we made Blogdex #8 and Daypop Top 40.
Famous at last.

Time is life, and the faster you move, the less you have.
- Dirk Jamison’s father

Guardian Unlimited | The seven wonders of the web

adnan has an idea:
“i was alone and that’s when i came up with the idea for a muslim group weblog.
A grouplog, where i would round up some interesting muslim ppl where they would rant about their daily life, muse, link and do whatever it is people normally do with their weblogs, except they would [...]

Scary reading: Microsoft’s Really Hidden Files

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
- Bertrand Russell

Living in a State of Alert: “6:30 p.m. I receive a package from Amazon.com. I hire my brother to open it for me. Just books. Bill O’Reilly criticizes me for being a coward.”

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.
- James Baldwin,
Nobody Knows My Name

Wow - my Secret Santa recipient got engaged too! That makes two friends in one day. How cool is that?
Now I’m just worried that she didn’t get my gift - she hasn’t mentioned it yet. Damn.

In spite of my foul mood on Christmas Eve, things turned out surprisingly well.
We waited ’till last night to decorate the tree, not out of tradition but procrastination, and discovered that the box of lights and ornaments was missing. I was very upset with myself for being such a clutter hog that I couldn’t find [...]