Susan Beebe

Right now? My recent blog posts says it all. In general? Just to lead a pleasant life with wonderful surprises and to have my kids grow up happy. - Anika Malone

To die without regret. - Michael W. May via twhirl

Kol +1... - Holger Eilhard

MWM- those are words to live by- or by which to live if I am trying to be more of a grammarian. - Abby Martin

Michael, like that one. - Kol Tregaskes

that my children grow up healthy and happy and manage their lives well followed by my desire to publish one million photographs before I die. - Thomas Hawk

Thomas, with 10-15 a day, I'm sure you'll get there soon. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

That's lovely Thomas- and I feel certain both will happen. - Abby Martin

@koltregaskes My biggest wish would be for wellness of all friends and loved ones. - Czar

to make enough doing what I love in my creative endeavors to support my family, my friends, and to bring happiness and pride to those around me. - Helen Sventitsky

A family. I'm part of an amazing extended family, and I want to be able to grow my own branch of it. Good health, good job, sustainable income, etc. are all important, but still secondary to family for me. - The Bohemian Penguin

To have achieved immortality through beneficial discovery or execution (preferably without dying in the process). - xero

To make it through another day. - Silly Jilly

Wow. In LIFE? To be creative, and happy, and to have fun with my friends and loved ones. I'd love a relationship and some nice domestic bliss, but I've gotten along so far without it, so yeah, regret-free happiness. - Derrick

Here is mine and is part of a "We Dream" photo project run by a good friend. http://www.flickr.com/photos/y... - Mel.Buckpitt

Kol- +10000 PURE GOLD!! - Roberto Bonini

+1 Penguin. - Kol Tregaskes

to get lucky - Kyle Weller

Just to be happy and at peace with myself. - Still Just Katie

to meet the girl that I can sing Chicago songs to - Morgan Haley

To be able to wish; and be in position to try and make it happen with good health on my side and hope and the rest of it, and of course a great girl, family and friends to share it all with. - Jason

Happiness. To have that, I will also need to be able to know that I will truly be missed by a lot of people when I'm gone. - MiɳiMagɘ is EnderMage

I already have it. - Jim Jannotti

Some lovely comments here, thank you! - Kol Tregaskes

For my children to have happy, healthy, fulfilling lives in which they understand the importance of kindness. - Martha

Hmm. Same as you Kol. My #1 wish however, would be for all murder on earth to cease. - Mo Kargas

To be happy. - Alex Scoble

Peace for myself and peace for my country. - Daniel Dunson

To be comfortable - AJ Batac

To finish everything I was put here on this earth to do. #2 would be a lifetime supply of crabcakes! - Amani

I already have more than I need, except could always have more friends :D My wish is that years from now when most of it is behind me I can look back and feel I havent wasted it, I havent walked past the important things in some drive for something else, have made an impact on others which I don't need to be ashamed, and ideally an impact I can be proud of. And not have wasted my abilities either, which is my worry at the moment I guess. - Joelle Nebbe

to destroy the enemy. to see them driven before me. and to hear the lamentations of the women. - Tad Goes to 11

A family. As much as I love the fast-city single lifestyle, I really just want a wife and 2 kids and a house in the suburbs. White picket fence is negotiable. It's all I've wanted since I was a kid. - Haggis (Sean)

Silly Genie. I wish for 1000 more wishes. - Andrew Smith

Echoing many - a husband and family. Where are all these single people who want families, and why do I never meet them? (Oh, because I sit at home surfing the net and watching movies instead of meeting people...) - Jandy Stone

To have someone to love for the rest of my life. - mathew, keynote not lame

is it pretty easy to update a favicon with WP? - Thomas Hawk

super-easy - just upload new favicon.ico to the root of your public_html - James Hull

My friend is gong to do this as well. How hard is it to switch? - Jake Rome

Nice, congrats on the switch. You'll be *very* happy! WordPress FTW. - Tamar Weinberg

If you mean self-hosted Wordpress, I agree that for most purposes it is much better than Blogger. But if you are referring to letting wordpress.com host your blog, I'd have to disagree. I like being able to use JS and make money off of ads, which is something wordpress.com doesn't allow. - April Russo

WordPress.com or .org? - Tom Harrison

Wicked! I hope it goes through smoothly. (By the way, will you be on your own host or through WordPress.com? I don't think you can update a favicon through WordPress.com.) - Bryan Villarin

Wordpress is awesome, but April makes a good point. To really take advantage of it, you need to self host. - rogersdc (Chris)

Yes - usually when I think WordPress I mean .org. Hopefully that's what you're going for! - Tamar Weinberg

I've been testing Wordpress myself. WP 2.7's new Dashboard is just great, so easy to use. Don't forget the WPtouch plugin for iphones/itouches! - Paul Ward

I feel that 2009 will be the year I make the switch, will I be able to keep/replicate the same visible structure - http://joedawsons.com ?? - Joe Dawson

Joe: is that on blogger? should be easy to make the switch - rogersdc (Chris)

Joe, for the most part, yes, but you may need to get a graphic designer or web developer to help create a theme that you like. - Tamar Weinberg

Joe Dawson: The self-hosted version of WordPress lets you code your own themes from scratch, so you can replicate any design you want. WP templates are dead simple to learn, too. - Tom Harrison

yeah, self hosting, not at wordpress.org. I've already got thomashawk.com and my own dedicated server. Aaron's installing it on my server for me and doing the migration. Jake, it looked too difficult for me to figure out how to do the transfer but I'm sure Aaron is infinitely more adept at this sort of thing than I am. - Thomas Hawk

It should go great! Good luck! - iSteeve

*fingers crossed* good luck thomas! - david noelte

good luck. i think you'll find a world of exciting possibilities, especially with a self-hosted wordpress setup - Glenn Batuyong via twhirl

I've been impressed with how easy and solid WordPress has been to self-host. The only drawbacks I've seen are the customizations I have to reintegrate every time I update the theme or the core installation. - Rod Bauer via twhirl

I'm not planning on updating the theme much. I picked a very simple one with a white background and have a new logo for the top of the page. Other than that it's just a simple two column blog. I wanted it to look really clean. I'll add a few widgets though. Probably the friendfeed one and maybe the flickr one if it looks good. - Thomas Hawk

Make sure you use the same permalink format, or redirect posts to their new locations with 301 redirects. - Tom Harrison

I've been meaning to make the switch, too (I'm a self-hosted Blogger person as well), but it's all a little (well, a LOT) too daunting for me to tackle over a weekend. - vicster

hmmm.. not sure how that works Tom, hopefully Aaron is familiar with that. I'm assuming that the old links should still work. - Thomas Hawk

Sounds good. I've been thinking of switching from self-hosted Movable Type to WordPress. It seems to have a better selection of community & 3rd party supported templates, pagination, etc. Six Apart's direction for MT just doesn't support individuals as well as corporate clients. - William Beem

vicster, it was wayyyyy too daunting for me to even try. Glad that Aaron was willing to give it a go for me. - Thomas Hawk

Yeah, wouldn't worry. Aaron's quite capable. - Tom Harrison

Anybody happen to know if Blogger actually caps comment access at 5000? - Aaron Brazell

Congrats...this will be a major upgrade. Will you be using a photo optimized theme? Let us know when the site is live. - Mark Krynsky

Good Luck Aaron & Thomas. I look forward to finally meeting Aaron in person tomorrow at the Social Media Club (SMC) Rochester NY meetup @ Triphammer Grill wooo hooo! - Susan Beebe

he's the man I'd trust with the job. - Duncan Riley

I posted this yesterday and like you @sally, I too would love to work for them one day (i grew up a Disney kid in north florida. we'd go down to see the castle being *built*). ;) - Jim Mitchem

I worked for Disney about 20 years ago in WDW retail. Other than Edelman, it's really the only other company I want to work for - maybe in a decade I will get to go back. Iger is the man. - Steve Rubel

Why did the quote from Willy Wonka "Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker." come to mind? *lol* - LOLMolly

I would love to try this one out :) - AJ Batac

Bleagh. Real absinthe is bitter. Why would I want a bitter lollipop? I suck on bitterness all the time: it's called Life. - Spidra Webster

I want someone to try this out and then tell me about it! hahah so i can then try them out. - *Tiffany Diamond*

Spidra, I just hurt myself laughing at that :) - Mo Kargas

Oh that sucks. I hope you all feel better soon. - Anika Malone

And baby has a bad cough. Waiting for antibiotics and more now. Expensive health day. - Josh Haley

Oh no! So sorry! Try tea with lemon to soothe the scratchiness. Feel better soon! - Abby Martin

D'oh! One time I had strept throat, pink eye and an ear infection ALL AT ONCE. I thought i was gonna die. - Tad Goes to 11

Oh noes! Sending healing thoughts & prayers your way... :-) - Lisa L. Seifert

:( - Steven Perez

Tad, I totally had that in college once, all three of 'em. You're right, death seemed imminent. - Josh Haley

oh that sucks...hope you guys start feeling better - (jeff)isageek

Boo! - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

oh wow...not fun! sorry to hear that.... - Live4Soccer

tough situation when the whole house gets it. feel better - Cee Bee

sorry to hear that :( - Thomas Hawk

one year i had that 3 times in a row. three months in a row, and my mother was worried so bad, it was when i was 20, and i just quit working a the ladies lunge bar.. i always though it was from my lounge clearing the smoke from my lungs. hang in there. - Caroline

Ugh. Thanks you guys for the support.We are all so achy and lame right now it's pretty pathetic. We have to get our 9 and 7 yr old boys to get stuff for us. :p - Josh Haley

:( - Helen Sventitsky

Feel better Josh...and family! - Tamar Weinberg

Damn Bro. Sorry to hear that. Lucky I got out when I did I suppose. Get fixed soon and feel better bruddah. Let me know what you need, if you need anything. - Morgan Haley

Not cool. :( - Steven Perez

I cannot like this. - Silly Jilly

That sucks, I've had it twice in my life. Not fun at all. - mathew, keynote not lame

:( Feel better soon! - Alix Whitmire ƸӜƷ

that sucks. May it pass quickly! - Jim Jannotti

:( - Johnny Worthington

What is up with everyone having strep? :[ - (Joey)

NOOOOOOO! Into the bubbles, all of you! :( - Yolanda

Pleh! Do you think y'all gave it to Morgan, too? Strep throat SUCKS. Get better! - Ladybug Heather

bummer!!!!! augh!! get well soooon! - Susan Beebe

It is a great hat! Nice choice there. - Bill Sodeman

Very nice. I don't think I could pull one of those off. - Shawn Farner

"That's a nice hat".."YOU LIKE ITTTT?!" Sorry, Fifth Element moment.. - Mo Kargas

My husband won't shut up about this. I guess he's running it on his laptop, but he loves it. - Anika Malone

I'm looking forward to Media Center in Windows 7. I sure hope MSFT includes an interface here for Netflix that is as good as the one that they have on the XBox 360. - Thomas Hawk

Running it on my mac via fusion since yesterday. Massive leap since vista where performance and usability goes. - FatOracle (Kamath)

I've been running Windows 7 exclusively (at home and work) for almost 9 months now. It's a different ballgame this time around -- the beta version is rock solid for daily use. - Charlie Owen

Oh, and Thomas, it's largely up to Netflix to determine if an interface is built for Windows Media Center. In other words, you should probably revise your comment to read 'I sure hope Netflix builds an interface for Windows Media Center...'. - Charlie Owen

I agree with Charlie - I've running it both home and work as well and it is indeed a really solid beta - usable for daily use. - Brandon LeBlanc via twhirl

"What struck us was that the little ones were completely on their own and that they had lots of swimming gear with them," said Holger Jureczko, a police spokesman. He described Mika and Anna-Bell as "sweethearts" who had "decided to get married in Africa where it is warm, taking with them as a witness Mika's sister". Anna-Bell told the German television station RTL: "We wanted to get married and so we just thought: 'Let's go there.' " Mika said: "We wanted to take the train to the airport, then we wanted to get on a plane and when we arrived we wanted to unpack the summer things and then we wanted to go for a bit of a stroll in the sun." - Cee Bee

Ummmmmmm - Shevonne

Wow... At the same time, I can't help but be impressed at the amount of thought they put into the plan. Most 5 year olds I've known can't plan how to get their crayons from the shelf to the table and back again. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

perhaps i'm overly romantic about certain things, but maybe this is just meant to be. - Cee Bee

I love that purified innocence. - Amit Morson

You've got to admire the kids though. That's pretty impressive. I don't think I would have made it that far at that age (or now for that matter). - James Ferguson

I love that they thought to bring a witness. - Yolanda

Yolanda - yeah, that was great. Gotta make it official, ya know. - Hutch Carpenter

So I'm confused here; do I blame Bush or video games? - Mark VandenBerg

Blame Bush. It's usually his fault. - Ian May

Oh that's so sweet. Very well thought out. My 5 yo wouldn't have been able to plan how to get to school, let alone to a train station. - Anika Malone

My 5 yo son would plan everything but on the execution part 0. - Amit Morson

Yeah...the whole bringing a witness thing is the part that just slayed me. hahaha. Too, too cute. :) - Lainie

A Disney story ^_^ - attesafan

Aww this is the sweetest story. Wonder if they'll still be together next month ; ) - Adriana

this is really adorable and maybe you're right, cee. :) - Corie

I don't think it's sweet, it's just weird. As I said on today's repost of this, where were their parents? It might be a little more palatable if they were 15 and 16, I think... - Kamilah Gill

First. I win. I'll tell you where to send it here: - Shawn Farner

Want to be one of the first to try out the Seagate FreeAgent|Theater HD media player device? It comes out in March, but you can win one today. Here’s the first way to win: How: Be one of the first 10 people to meet me at the Seagate meeting room on Thursday, January 8, 2009 at 1 p.m. PT. Bring a business card or contact info so we know where to ship your prize. You must be a member of Twitter or friendfeed. What do I win?: You’ll be the first to get a new FreeAgent Theater HD Media Player when the product ships in March. It’s your chance to enjoy digital media on your TV with a cool product that won a CES 2009 Innovations Award. Where: Las Vegas Convention Center, South Hall 4, Room S215-S216 “But, Scoble, I can’t go to CES.” Well, there’s a second way to win: Be the one to tell the winner about the contest. “Huh?” Well, if you retweet my Twitter message and the person who shows up tomorrow says that they learned about the contest from you, you win the device too. We did this earlier in the year where w - Robert Scoble

So sool Robert! Segates CEO 'Gets it'. And their quality is still good. - Michael G. Galli

Now that I live in Indonesia, no chance I'm gonna get that prize. My network is no where near you. Can you make it another one eligible for your online far away readers? ;) - Akhmad Fathonih

Akhmad: that's not true. Last time I did this several people outside the US won, including in India. This is now a global network. - Robert Scoble

Akhmad: You don't have a chance if you don't try ;) - Larsen aka Qbat

Akhmad: Oh, and I'll randomly give away anyone who doesn't give someone else's name other than mine. So that's another way to win. - Robert Scoble

Randomly out of which group is that? - Tom Ribbens

Adam Lasnik posted a fairly simple tip for doing this with Chrome: http://friendfeed.com/e/d49647... The trickier thing for me is making sure I am posting the right tweet from the right account! Ah, but if you're talking about doing this with the bookmarklet, that is a different story - wonder if that could be managed the same way. - Laura Norvig

On my mobile phone, I use Slandr to access my personal Twitter account and mobile Twitter to access another Twitter account. You can do similar things with 2 web browsers. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo

Ideally I'd really like an app that manages multiple personas across all sites I access that require log-ins. Since I consider FF my primary Social Network if I could just get that here that would make a world of difference. I'm using Ubuntu so if any brilliant geek has the solution I would be eternally grateful. It is either that or have additional capacity added to have 4-5 PCs. - Internet Strategist

Have you considered using rooms instead? - Paul Buchheit

Digsby lets you manage multiple twitter accounts, but not friendfeed. Meebo also lets you manage multiple accounts and allows you to see all of your myspace friends from multiple accounts. Still not all of the features that I want, but getting closer. - Chris Loft

I don't think FriendFeeds strength is social networking... I think it's niche is being the best personal aggregator. It is "open" in & out, which makes users like it because they can control their own data. FriendFeed will do well to invest in more features to let users control their feeds: tags, permissions, channels, etc. - Steve V

I have to admit that I removed all my social profiles (except delicious) because I thought my stumbles and other activity was too noisy. So I'm totally on board with this request. - Tamar Weinberg

Internet Strategist, I guess you can feed the same (say, Twitter) input to multiple FF accounts. Then each FF account can probably feed it back to different Twitter accounts. Would this do? - Alexandros Georgiadis

@Paul @Alexandros Let me clarify. I have a FF account for my business & blog (Internet Strategist, GrowMap), and want to open others for client's businesses' blogs. The content is totally unrelated and would alienate subscribers interested in what I post and overwhelm those interested in what those other blogs post. I'll think about how I might use rooms plus accounts at Twitter for each. I'd still rather they each had their own FF feed but rooms might work. - Internet Strategist

I have always had the utmost contempt for how we've treated the Native Americans. A no-win situation that disgusts me. I agree COMPLETELY - Tutivillus Grift

I should add Canada in there as well. - Shey

Yep... - J. Abdul-Qahhar

all of the Americas, in that case...every country in this hemisphere... - Live4Soccer

Sounds about right. - Jason Huebel

It's interesting that one of the reasons for the fight for independence of the original 13 colonies of north america was so it could renege on treaties signed by the british crown to halt expansion westwards into more native american territories. - alphaxion

Yeah, you're right. My people were complete newcomers and bought Palestine for a bag of beads. NOT. - Michael R. Bernstein

Still, it's an interesting analogy. What if Native Canadians were firing rockets from Vancouver into Seattle and Portland? - Michael R. Bernstein

@Michael You're right, it's not exactly the same. But I'm hoping I can point out to both sides of the argument the similarities between the two situations. - Shey

@michael r. bernstein - They'd have every right (marrying a Haida) - Tutivillus Grift

Neither are true. - Mark VandenBerg

@Mark Why not? - Shey

@Michael http://andrewsullivan.theatlan... - Alejandro S.

No. Reason 1 - non-native Americans cannot claim that their ancestors lived in the country previously. - Ontario Emperor

No. Reason 2 - while non-native Americans and Israelis often fled because of religious persecution, the non-native Americans cannot claim that the European governments were intent on exterminating their entire religious group. (Perhaps someone will disagree with me on this point, but I assert that the Spanish Inquisition wanted you to convert or die, while the Nazis just wanted you to die.) - Ontario Emperor

No. Reason 3 - after 1812, foreign powers did not arm the native Americans in an attempt to overthrow the U.S. government and wipe the non-native Americans into the Atlantic Ocean. - Ontario Emperor

Israel the country is the result of a treaty agreement (simple explanation, I know, but sometimes simple is best). I do see your argument for the USA being founded as imperialistic, but then so are most other countries. Do we cede Europe and Asia back to original African settlers? - Mark VandenBerg

how about we take every person that fights over scraps of dirt into space and make them look down on our beautiful planet. Get them to realise how small they really are and how pointless our battles over territory serve to do nothing but spread misery and suffering and hamper the potential within us all. - alphaxion

disagree, but i see where you're coming from. it's not as neat an oppressor versus oppressed parallel as it is with aboriginal/indigenous americans. what is now israel was carved out of colonial territory by the US and UK. and i could be wrong on this, but many zionists are indeed newcomers (i.e. Jews of European not Semitic extraction) to the region. but gaza and the west bank also function as defensive buffer zones. they're not territorial acquisition in quite the same way as u.s. expansion was. - tiffany. lowercase 't'

At what point do we, the world, just accept that this is an ongoing sibling rivalry that started between Jacob and Esau and let it finish with no more involvement? - Mark VandenBerg

I'm sorry Mark, but this has nothing to do with religion. The US and the UK created this mess by allowing the formation of Israel in the first place. The US and the UK should fix it. - Alejandro S.

@Alejandro What about the Native American situation -- what should the US and Canada do to fix that? - Shey

Note that all of the Arab middle-eastern countries are the result of the same treaties. Israel isn't unique in that regard. - Michael R. Bernstein

shey: apart from going back in time and saving the tribes that were annhilated there's little they can do. Unless you agree to handing over large tracts of land back to them and balkanise the the USA. Don't forget that Mt Rushmore is a Native American sacred monument. - alphaxion

@Alejandro What part of my comment was religious? - Mark VandenBerg

I'm not informed enough on the Native American situation to answer that, Shey. In regard to Palestine, the US and the UK should help creating a Palestinian state. The only reason it still doesn't exists is that the US won't force Israel to negotiate. - Alejandro S.

Tiffany, you are wrong on that point. A large portion of Israel's jewish population were refugees from surrounding Arab countries fleeing persecution. Israel granted them citizenship. Whereas Palestinians (fleeing with far less justification) were herded into refugee camps and kept there for the past 60 years by their Arab 'brothers'. Israel inherited that problem when it conquered the territory that the camps were on. - Michael R. Bernstein

Mark, this has nothing to do with Jacob and Esau. It's about Palestinians being displaced from their land in the 20th century. - Alejandro S.

Note that when Egypt signed a peace treaty with Israel in return for Israel returning the Sinai, Egypt *refused* to take Gaza back. - Michael R. Bernstein

@Alejandro How should the US and the UK "fix" the problem? - Mark VandenBerg

I already answered that Mark. See previous reply. - Alejandro S.

Alejandro, the displacement was not one-sided. Did you know that there were Jews living in Gaza City until 1929 when the Palestinians rioted and forced them all to leave? - Michael R. Bernstein

Alejandro, the Arabs had their chance in 1947 but they rejected the Partition Plan and went to war instead. Now you want the US and UK to 'fix' the problem by helping create a Palestinian state that the Arabs rejected in the first place? The Jews were ready for a two-state solution from the outset but the Arabs want all of the land for themselves and they continue to want all of the land for themselves. - Akiva Moskovitz

Palestine refugees weren't accepted by the Arab countries, that's true, but Israel also denied them citizenship. - Alejandro S.

Akiva, Israel also wants all the land for themselves. How do explain the expansion they have had in the last 60 years? The way they keep all the humanitarian help, food and medicine, from reaching the Palestinians? That's why the US and the UK should force both parties to negotiate, - Alejandro S.

Alejandro, that's not true. Israel, from the beginning, has always welcomed Arab citizens and, in fact, begged many to stay. Most chose to leave of their own accord to live in Arab-controlled countries. - Akiva Moskovitz

Yeah, I'm going to agree with Akiva. 60 years ago they could have had what they are now fighting for. In hind-sight it seems they chose, poorly. - Mark VandenBerg

The past should be irrelevant when there's massive loss of life going on. All hostilities should cease immediately regardless of who's right or wrong. - Tad Goes to 11

I'm trying to understand what business it is of ours what is going on over there. Let Israel and Hamas fight it out and be done with it. It's not our business to be the worlds policeman. Whenever we do get involved, some country or group of people get's pissed off at us anyway. - Jason Shultz via twhirl

+1 Internet Jason. Close the door, call us when you're either done or have run out of bullets. - Mark VandenBerg

Tad, while in