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A little over two years ago, I wrote an article about mobile phone usage in public called Banning Cell Phones in Public Places. I was, and still am, of the opinion that most public spaces are not the place to whip out your mobile phone and start loudly talking about your personal life, to the detriment of the people around you -- particularly when the people can do nothing to get away from you, such as on a bus. Last night, I discovered in horror how easy it is to become that person on the phone.

I'm never at a loss learning how many young people are uneducated in the proper way to communicate online with those outside their immediate generation.  Over the last couple of years, I've noticed kids in the 18-20 year old age range have terrible email manners.  They write, you reply -- they never acknowledge your response -- so you're left to wonder if you got stuck in a Spam folder or if you're just being ignored.  Kids today have no idea why sending back an "Ack" is intrinsically important in continuing the hoary, but vital, tradition of effective online communication.  

It's that time of the year again when we open our hearts to Six Apart and another major Movable Type upgrade only to once again have our love spun unrequited and our delicate hearts shattered by a reality that belies the promise.

We all know and loathe "Black Friday" -- but I didn't realize "Cyber Monday" was the first Monday after Black Friday and it is my fault that I wasn't paying attention the calendar as I wasted an entire day yesterday rassling with Amazon and UPS over missing orders and late deliveries.

When you life your life on the web, the most important part of that devil's bargain is finding the precisely right web hosting service that can meet your needs while sustaining and exceeding the robustness you hope bring to lighting up dark niches of the world.  For the past 18 months -- our longest stint with any web hosting provider -- we have been with Pair Networks on their entry level QuickServe QS-1 dedicated server and we are happy to announce we will be extending our contract with them for another year after upgrading our server to the new standard you see below.

I was finally able to test drive a developer release for Google Chrome for Mac over the weekend, and within three minutes of using the browser, I made Chrome my default web browser.  I gladly retired my long, and tepid, association with Firefox.  

I was thrilled to find a Google Wave invitation waiting for me this morning in my Inbox!  I was a little disappointed I didn't get into the first round of public beta testing.  I was certain I had goofed up my application by thinking Wave was a reinvention of Sites instead of a rebirth of email.  Here's the evidence, though, that I must have done something right to get in on the second Google Wave!