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• I'm at Whispering Woods and Lake View for one more year. Until Whispering Woods gets its range up and running (July 1, supposedly?) Lake View still fulfills a vital role.
• Carey's decided that, this year, she's re-committing herself to golf. I'm going to do my best to stay out of the way - get her some lessons and let her go from there. Keep things fun.
• Women's golf is nowhere near as competitive as men's golf, and yet they have the same number of college scholarships available to them (by law).
• Whispering Woods is going to have a blog. I'm going to help them set it up.
• This will be the first year I look to take lessons. 2007 was a good year for me, but 2008 was not. My self-taught swing needs another person's eyes to work on something that obviously didn't stick last year.

St. Patty's Day - another excuse to get drunk.

I wager that there will be thousands of people who will drink more alcohol today than I've ever had.

So I've had the Kindle 2 for a week. And I read the fairly long user guide.

And that's about it.

I just haven't had the time. I don't see that changing much any time soon. Over the summer, things might be different, but right now's an awfully busy time of year.

P.S. If GolfWeek or GolfWorld (both weekly publications) were available, I'd use it a lot more.

If your answer is a bit more complex than what's available above, say why in the comments.

I haven't installed it yet - not on my Macs, nor my virtual Windows setups - and don't plan to, either.

When I was a kid, it seemed as though my family knew just about everyone that lived around us - our neighbors. They talked to most of them.

Today, I don't know many of the neighbors around me nearly as well. It may be a symptom of many things - more time spent together as a family, or more time spent away from the home in general, or simply less time spent in the yard when we are home. Increased concerns about privacy, longer work weeks, more emphasis on children not having to entertain themselves…

Is your perception the same? Do we know our neighbors less now than 20 years ago? If so, why?

… but every time I hear "Start Me Up" by the Rolling Stones I think of the Windows 95 parody song.

I agree with this article: the new Shuffle misses the sweet spot.

You shouldn't need an "adapter" to be able to listen to an MP3 player. It's not like the previous generation Shuffle was a cumbersome beast.

Apple's gone too far here. The old Shuffle was perhaps perfect. The new one is a big step backwards.

Apple is a prideful place, too - I don't see them eating humble pie and introducing the next Shuffle after this one with the glorious return of buttons.

I recently held a contest at another site of mine. People had to correctly answer six product-related questions in order to be eligible, and one of the questions was phrased in a mildly tricky fashion.

The product was a rangefinder, and USGA rules recently allowed rangefinders to be used - at a tournament committee's discretion - in events. They, however, are never allowed to be used if they measure something other than distance, and some products measure things like slope (angle up or down to the target) and so on.

The question asked basically "what rule permits the use of [product with distance and slope measuring capabilities in tournament play?" The correct answer - which was provided along with three others in a popup menu - was "none," and one of the two linked articles basically gave the answer in a word-for-word fashion.

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Safari 4 (beta) seems to have an issue with caching. Once an image (or whatever) fails to load, it never seems to load again until you quit Safari and re-launch it (and perhaps clear the cache - cmd-opt-e).

I've even tried loading up the image directly (it works), then reloading the page that contains it (still shows up as missing). Grrrrr.

Wolf Rentzsch pointed me towards Drew Thaler's post, which contains a Safari bookmarklet to reload broken images.

This will work on a per-page basis. Unfortunately, it works by assigning a parameter to the image (i.e. "blah.png?1") to force Safari into thinking it's a different image than the one it refuses to load. In other words, Safari will still fail to load the original image.

My Kindle arrived today, so here are some of my thoughts. In no particular order.

• Unboxing was not quite Apple-like, but it was better than most consumer products.
• Amazon should give you $9.99 or something to buy your first book. I find myself waiting to download the "perfect" first book rather than just any ol' book. I think that once I get the first one, I'll get the second and third much more quickly. ((Someone mentioned free books in the comments. That might help.))
• Still lame that you are charged to email a document to your Kindle ((Alleviated somewhat by the fact that you can have files sent to your computer and copy them directly to your Kindle, at least.)).
• The little letter buttons are small. The screen could probably be a bit taller. But it's really not that bad…
• The keyboard and the 5 Way Controller thingy have a good feel to them. The squareness of the 5WC, for example, works well.
• e-ink uses no battery power once it's drawn? I didn't know that until I read it in the user manual. Cool.

More after the jump…

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For Mac users only:

P.S. I'm not asking about your highlight color. If you want to answer that question, go here.

I really like photos like this, but I never see them in my own day-to-day life.

Given that I have a Kindle 2 arriving soon, can anyone recommend any good books?

I tried to write about what I do and don't like, but I don't want to shut myself off to any "boundary stretching" options. The only things I really won't consider are comics, sci fi, and perhaps politics.

As some may have guessed, a Kindle 2 is on its way to me.

I've previous said that the Kindle only interested me if it was $299 or less, and then went on to say "if it's free, and only then." ((Which is pretty much the same as this comment: "Unless someone gives me a $359 Amazon gift card that expires in ten minutes, I'll pass."))

I took advantage of the fact that, as a freelancer, I can set my rates at whatever I like. When I'm bored, I'll sometimes do favors for friends and ask nothing in return. To make a long story short, I did about eight hours of work over two uneventful, non-busy days, and I got a Kindle 2 and a cover out of it. The work I did was worth $400 to my friend, and suffice to say it was worth giving the Kindle 2 a shot. ((Effectively, since my friend would have been just as happy to give me $400, I rationalized it to myself as "well you're not really losing anything, and you're gaining a Kindle 2. I effectively set my hourly rate at whatever I'd pay for a Kindle 2 divided by eight. So I worked for somewhere between $12 and $25/hour. :-D))

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A simple question this time: