With the holidays fast approaching, everybody and their brother is making a list (and checking it twice) of the best gifts to get and give this year.

From Yahoo! comes a list of the top 10 toys people are searching for on the Web this holiday season. At the top of the list is my beloved Nintendo Wii.

Also making the list are the new version of TMX Elmo, Transformers action figures and Bratz dolls. Sounds like I’d better head back out to talk to Santa, because my wife and I didn’t tell him to bring any of those things to our house this year.

Just a quick post to say how silly I am, and what a ripoff Sony’s Memory Sticks can be. On Black Friday, I purchased what I thought was a great deal. I got a 2 gigabyte Sony Memory Stick Pro Duo for my Sony Cybershot camera for less than $20.

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Yesterday we had the first snowfall of the season here in the D.C. area. The snow started at about 7 a.m. and had already made things really nasty by about 7:30. I was on my way to work and actually decided to turn around and head home because of how bad things were getting.

It was very strange. At the beginning, the snow wasn’t actually sticking to the roads, it was just laying on top. When the wind would blow, the snow would blow around on the road, too. Unfortunately, when the wind would blow, the cars would blow around on the road, as well.

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First of all, I am still sick, so this is going to be a short post, but I wanted to get something posted and I wanted to get this information out there for people.

TechSmith, the company that brought us Camtasia Studio, has released a new tool that’s completely free. The tool is called “Jing”, and from the limited time I’ve had to play with it, it seems wonderful.

Jing isn’t completely new. In fact, it’s been around for about six months. However, a new release was made on Nov. 28, 2007 that, according to the changelog, includes a lot of monumental improvements. I’m not sure how long Jing will be a free product, but as long as it is, I encourage you to try it out.

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