Merry Christmas!

We’re going out to look at Silicon Valley’s Christmas lights. If we find any I’ll throw them up on my Flickr feed (you can see a shot of Silicon Valley as we flew in this afternoon).

On other news, thanks to InformationWeek who named me one of the “change agents” to watch in 2006. Cool photo too (hey, that’s Eric Rice in the background).

If you are in Silicon Valley and are bored (or know where there are some nice Christmas lights) give us a call. 425-205-1921.

This is also my first post that I’ve made from Windows Vista. There will be a lot to say about this in 2006, that’s for sure (and not all pro, either, although overall this is FAR better than XP, but then I had some help setting it up). I still don’t have Aero, though, but I’ll figure that out this week.

Watch Santa tonight on http://www.noradsanta.org/

And this site lets you see where the big Christmas displays are: http://msnsearch101.com/searchmap/en-us/default.aspx – still needs a lot more data, but maybe this will be very useful next year.

  • Anonymous

    Hey Robert, also check out Santa Stars, a Google Maps project plots the location of Christmas Lights along with photos:

    http://www.santastars.com/

  • Anonymous

    Hey Robert, also check out Santa Stars, a Google Maps project plots the location of Christmas Lights along with photos:

    http://www.santastars.com/

  • http://www.pixpulse.com/ David X

    For Xmas lights, go to the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. LOTS of Xmas light displays, FYI this is probably a 2 – 3 hour trip :)

  • http://www.pixpulse.com David X

    For Xmas lights, go to the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. LOTS of Xmas light displays, FYI this is probably a 2 – 3 hour trip :)

  • http://brandonlive.com/ Brandon Paddock

    Well, you have the Aero theme probably, you just don’t have the Glass theme with the DWM turned on :)

  • http://brandonlive.com Brandon Paddock

    Well, you have the Aero theme probably, you just don’t have the Glass theme with the DWM turned on :)

  • http://edico.blogspot.com/ Stefan Constantinescu

    Merry Christmas Robert!

    Hope we can organize a geek party @ CES

    2006 here we come!

  • http://edico.blogspot.com Stefan Constantinescu

    Merry Christmas Robert!

    Hope we can organize a geek party @ CES

    2006 here we come!

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ scobleizer

    David X: yeah, that’s what we ended up doing after a Chinese dinner in Palo Alto. We even went to Hewlett and Packard’s garage (birthplace of Silicon Valley): http://www.flickr.com/photos/35034363287@N01/77082500/

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ scobleizer

    David X: yeah, that’s what we ended up doing after a Chinese dinner in Palo Alto. We even went to Hewlett and Packard’s garage (birthplace of Silicon Valley): http://www.flickr.com/photos/35034363287@N01/77082500/

  • http://blogs.devleap.com/romeopruno Romeo Pruno

    Merry Christmas and Happy New Year :-)

  • http://blogs.devleap.com/romeopruno Romeo Pruno

    Merry Christmas and Happy New Year :-)

  • http://www.kirupa.com/ Kirupa

    Merry Christmas Robert =)

  • http://www.kirupa.com Kirupa

    Merry Christmas Robert =)

  • http://www.nappydiatribe.blogspot.com/ HumanityCritic

    Happy Holidays!!

  • http://www.nappydiatribe.blogspot.com HumanityCritic

    Happy Holidays!!

  • http://lqblog.com/ Dave

    Merry Christmas Robert!!

    I really enjoyed reading your blog this past year.

    Thank you.

  • http://lqblog.com Dave

    Merry Christmas Robert!!

    I really enjoyed reading your blog this past year.

    Thank you.

  • http://htchien.blogspot.com/ Hsiang-Tai Chien

    Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

    May God bless you.

  • http://htchien.blogspot.com Hsiang-Tai Chien

    Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

    May God bless you.

  • http://nate.spaceballs.org/ Nate

    Merry Christmas Scoble.

  • http://nate.spaceballs.org Nate

    Merry Christmas Scoble.

  • Guest

    The picture of the garage is very cool. Merry Christmas!

  • http://blog.nordquist.org Brett Nordquist

    The picture of the garage is very cool. Merry Christmas!

  • http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/paul/ paul

    Change Agent, how about World Peace in ’06?

  • http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/paul/ paul

    Change Agent, how about World Peace in ’06?

  • http://brandonlive.com/ Brandon Paddock

    Merry Christmas Robert!

  • http://brandonlive.com Brandon Paddock

    Merry Christmas Robert!

  • http://brennan.wordpress.com/ bren

    Merry Christmas! I really hope that you could teach us how you could customize your wordpress blog as a christmas gift :P .

  • http://brennan.wordpress.com/ bren

    Merry Christmas! I really hope that you could teach us how you could customize your wordpress blog as a christmas gift :P .

  • http://ericrice.com/ Eric Rice

    Merry Christmas dude. I gave my mom an aggregator for Xmas. Heh.

  • http://ericrice.com Eric Rice

    Merry Christmas dude. I gave my mom an aggregator for Xmas. Heh.

  • http://www.fullcirc.com/weblog/onfacblog.htm Nancy White

    This light display is small but amazing. On Curtner, near lincoln, on the right coming from 87/Almaden Exp. is a house with one very tall palm tree and dang, if that tree isn’t lit up to the top. Blew me away as we were heading towards my parent’s house. Out of the way, but worth a gander.

  • http://www.fullcirc.com/weblog/onfacblog.htm Nancy White

    This light display is small but amazing. On Curtner, near lincoln, on the right coming from 87/Almaden Exp. is a house with one very tall palm tree and dang, if that tree isn’t lit up to the top. Blew me away as we were heading towards my parent’s house. Out of the way, but worth a gander.

  • http://comicstripblog.com/ Comic Strip Blogger

    (belated) Merry Christmas, Robert!

    I wonder how your new Smartphone works with Windows Vista? (is ActiveSync now built-in into Windows Vista or download..? etc)

    PS. by the way, so that you know: Dave Winer is removing comments from his scripting.wordpress.com blog ! He is totally applying censorship !

  • http://comicstripblog.com Comic Strip Blogger

    (belated) Merry Christmas, Robert!

    I wonder how your new Smartphone works with Windows Vista? (is ActiveSync now built-in into Windows Vista or download..? etc)

    PS. by the way, so that you know: Dave Winer is removing comments from his scripting.wordpress.com blog ! He is totally applying censorship !

  • http://duckdown.blogspot.com/ James

    If there were any integrity in the blogosphere, the following discussions surrounding ESB would occur:

    1. Folks would acknowledge that Sonic invented the term ESB but has lost ground to the open source community as ServiceMix (www.servicemix.org) has them beat by miles.

    2. No one would ever listen to the reviews posted by either industry analysts and/or magazines since they seem to never compare non-commercial open source platforms to closed proprietary products in their reviews.

    3. They would demand of all the conferences that they attend that the vast majority of speakers are customers not the folks from software vendors who provide thinly veiled powerpoint presentations chock-a-block with eye candy but lacking any substance. Customers have nothing to sell so having them present is key unless you really don’t have any…

    http://duckdown.blogspot.com/

  • http://duckdown.blogspot.com/ James

    If there were any integrity in the blogosphere, the following discussions surrounding ESB would occur:

    1. Folks would acknowledge that Sonic invented the term ESB but has lost ground to the open source community as ServiceMix (www.servicemix.org) has them beat by miles.

    2. No one would ever listen to the reviews posted by either industry analysts and/or magazines since they seem to never compare non-commercial open source platforms to closed proprietary products in their reviews.

    3. They would demand of all the conferences that they attend that the vast majority of speakers are customers not the folks from software vendors who provide thinly veiled powerpoint presentations chock-a-block with eye candy but lacking any substance. Customers have nothing to sell so having them present is key unless you really don’t have any…

    http://duckdown.blogspot.com/

  • http://projectguatemala.wordpress.com/ projectguatemala

    Merry Christmas Rob and Family

    Enjoy reading your blog regularly

    Best Wishes for a successful 2006

    David

    Project Guatemala

  • http://projectguatemala.wordpress.com/ projectguatemala

    Merry Christmas Rob and Family

    Enjoy reading your blog regularly

    Best Wishes for a successful 2006

    David

    Project Guatemala

  • Vivek Pai

    Merry Christmas Scoble!

  • Vivek Pai

    Merry Christmas Scoble!