Happy New Year!
This weekend Kate, Alex and I spent time together and generally relaxed. About the most strenuous thing that I did was spend some time doing some goal-setting for 2007. This is what passes for resolution-making for me. Somehow describing it that way keeps a more positive focus. One thing I hope to do more of in 2007 is keeping up with all of you through LJ, so you'll probably be seeing more me often.

One interesting New Year event was noticing that the Free State Project reached their goal for the First 1000 pledge at the exciting last minute before the deadline. It'll be interesting to see what happens. While this pilot program being successful doesn't ensure that the program will be successful, its failing probably sinks the project. My long-held belief is that the FSP is full of people who have not fully emotionally realized that New Hampshire is much more full of snow and cows than of technology jobs. If even this small, most-committed group has a substantial number of those who made the pledge bail out, we have to assume that the participation in the main drive will be minimal. I'm suspect this will happen, though I hope that it doesn't.

Another interesting thing I noticed was the success of a similarly ambitious project that I've written about here before: http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/ . I don't get the snowglobe thing, but I'm glad he made it. This project became media- and attention-seeking in a way that made it less fun to follow it than it might have been otherwise, but the initial idea was just downright brilliant, and I'm glad it worked out for that reason if for no other.

Happy New Year!