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I fell ill late Thursday night following a Thanksgiving dinner that couldn’t be beat and spent the following long weekend moping around the house high on tea with lemon and honey. Following much speculation I ran into a friend who I had seen the previous Saturday at a party. Turns out he was sick as well.

I’d joked with my wife about replicating the chicken pox parties our parent’s had when we were kids so that we could time when were going to get sick each winter. It’s almost as if someone thought of it first but didn’t tell anyone.

I had the opportunity last night to preview Gregory Raiz’s presentation on the state of Linux based software for the Desktop. He raises some very important points about easing adoption, encouraging new developers and ensuring compatibility. I hope he will make the presentation and notes available. Perhaps with some encouragement he will even turn it into a whitepaper.

Speaking of digging up old draft posts, this one is very fitting for this time of year. I posted my list of questions to help talk to your kids and my dad’s list of five things that matter. Here is my list of three Rules of Thumb for life:

1) Do what you love
2) Be good to others
3) Think and plan ahead

I’ve gone missing. It was not until I discovered this evening that someone other than my wife reads this blog that I realized how long it has been since my last post. I can only ask for forgiveness and hope that you have not given up on me. It’s been a long couple of months at work. We’re building a great product but it has taken a lot of time and energy. I promise have a dozen posts in draft form that I’m going to try and get some finished in the coming weeks. I am Glad to know you are out there reading.