Russ mentioned Avvenu to me a couple days ago. I've been hooked this then.

Russ is right, it does rock!

I really wish LogMeIn had a better mobile interface. They currently only support Microsoft Windows Mobile.

Russ just announced Yahoo! Go, which looks mighty good. I haven't played with everything yet, but so far I'm genuinely impressed.

I guess it means that one of my predictions already came true.

Erik's Pulse has been published.

46 editions of The Pulse were published in 2005. Did you read them all? If not, here is your chance to quickly get caught up.

We did our weekly grocery shopping at Safeway yesterday. They had gold pineapples on special. Next to them was this Vacuvin Pineapple Slicer, which also caught my eye. I love pineapples, but I don't often buy them because they're such a pain to peel and slice.

I have to admit that I am a total sucker for kitchen gadgets, but this thing is totally amazing. Works just as advertised. The best $10 I've ever spent for a slicer.

I even took a picture of the aftermath…

If you're having problems accessing CVS servers over SSH using IDEA and are running on a Athlon 64 with a Nvidia nforce4 chipset, like I had. You need to disable Checksum Offload in the Nvidia NIC driver advanced options:

Apparently, it is a general hardware problem which manifests itself with various network applications.

Thanks to Serge Baranov for the tip.

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Yahoo! Contacts Back-up

Russ had me play with the new Yahoo! Contacts Back-up on my RAZR:

SyncML OTA for Contacts & Datebook. Very, very sleek. Yahoo! is definitely inching closer to my predictions.

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New Year's Eve Dinner

We've decided to have our New Year's Eve dinner at The Melting Pot in Bellevue, tonight.

It doesn't look like Everett is doing any kind of fireworks, so we might head to Seattle afterwards.