It's probably a sign that you're spending too much time on-line when you post your Christmas List on the net. I did it so that I could update it later, as well as provide URL's to reference the stuff that I wanted. Now I just alert my relatives via e-mail, and point them at that URL. While I'm not much of a Christian, my family does celebrate Christmas quite well. But for us, it's more about being together with family who are spread far apart, not about gifts or the birth of a Messiah.

I am, however, willing to accept suggestions or critiques for my list. What else should I be asking for? I always think of some stuff that I really need, about two weeks after Christmas...

We've suffered through a broadcast storm here today. Our campus is one large "virtual subnet" so a broadcast goes to every computer. Obviously, this caused some problems, as our connections to the servers bounced up and down. Even now, I can't get Outlook 2000 to connect to the IMAP server, I'm in need of a reboot, but I don't want to abort my 650MB download of an .iso image of Mandrake...

At least the network admins found out who did it, apparently someone wasn't too handy with their copy of DriveImage...