View from Doorway

July 2004....Bathroom renovation needed. This is the before picture from the tub area.

Happy New Year

2004 in review -> http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html
Looking forward to 2005 ->

• As I look forward to 2005, one of these battles looks really interesting. It's not the most significant Microsoft effort for next year, but it has the potential to change how almost all of us search for information online. It's the battle between Google (on the offensive) and Microsoft (on the defensive) for the titles of world's best and most popular search engines. (http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1731539,00.asp)
• Despite the collective brain share of the best technical and legal minds fighting spam, I predict 2005 will be a banner year for unwanted e-mail.(http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,118985,00.asp)

I am sure there are more...as for me personally....I am really excited about 2005 and all it's possibilities.

Microsoft worried by Google

Looks like MS sees some competition in Google. Look at what just hit beta: http://beta.toolbar.msn.com/
of course Google is not sitting around idle
http://labs.google.com

Nothing but good can come from all of this.

Test

This is a test email blogger post to see if it works :)

Howdy

Woohoo...I got a Blog. I decided it was about time since Blog is now the Word of the year. (Merriam-Webster editors have announced that “blog” was the most requested word to their website this year, earning it a place as the top word of the year. -- http://www.ebcvg.com/articles.php?id=434)