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Imagine a Senator with scruples, heart and he puts himself out…... Emergency worker: Frist ‘a true hero’.

[Google U.S. News]

Talk about Socratic oath!  Our new Senate majority leader, FRIST was driving down the highway – when he came upon a bad car accident. He apparently rolled up his sleeves and got to work helping to save lives.  Can you imagine Sen. Trent Lott doing that for a busload of black kids?

Or even Ed Kennedy?  Dd he jump into the water to save Mary Jo what-her-name’s life?

This is a good sign of things to come. Senators with morals.

[Marc’s Voice]

Dan Gillmore predicts a PDA from Apple in 2003. Dan Gillmor, of the San Jose Mercury News, among his other prognostications for 2003, is predicting that Apple will introduce a PDA this year. There’s been speculation about this for past year or so, but remember that Steve Jobs has publically proclaimed his dislike for handhelds (he killed off the Newton soon after returning to Apple), so this is probably not going to happen. But if it does, expect Apple to come out with the best designed and most stylish PDA ever. Read… [Gizmodo]

Apple Releases iCal 1.0.1 and iSync 1.0 [Apple Press Releases]

Cities look to NYPD brass for new chiefs [CNN]

It’s January 1, time for new beginnings. Believe it or not I’m applying for a job in academia, so it’s time to put together my curriculum vitae. It’s a fancy name for a resume. Basically, the job I want to do is the one I have been doing, with some extras (like teaching), but not in the context of a commercial software company. UserLand has been getting along fine without me since early summer. And of course I remain the major shareholder in the company, so I’m very interested, and I help out whenever I can. But if it goes as I hope it will, you’ll see a gradual separation. All the stuff that I write on the Web, Scripting News, DaveNet, the specs and discussion groups will stay independent, but the software — Radio, Manila, Frontier, etc — that’s UserLand. As I’ve been talking with people about this, it’s been hard for them to separate me from UserLand, but that’s what I want to do. I’m going to get a new job with a new title, and it’s going to be quite different from being the CEO of a commercial software company. It’s time to set my life in a new direction. My health, quitting smoking, my father’s illness, all have given me the chance to make a big change in lifestyle. Wish me luck! And as I do this corner-turn, in the spirit of weblogs, I will document as much as I possibly can, publicly. [Scripting News]

Umm.. because new technology comes along and we want to take advantage of it?  Geesh…

George Wallace. “Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we’ve been bombing over the years been complaining?” [Adam Curry: Adam Curry’s Weblog]

New Year’s Resolutions. Though I’d fallen out of the habit of making New Year’s resolutions, Mark Pilgrim’s ardent, purposeful choices inspired me to reflect upon what I hope to achieve in 2003. Here are my resolutions: Write about things that are closer to my heart Photograph thoughtfully, as I used to Live each [Jonathon Delacour]