Christmas is coming soon, and we'll be off to California again at the end of the month to be with family and friends for the holidays. My immediate family sends out gift suggestion emails at the beginning of December, and I'm always the last one to send mine out. So I'm getting it done today.
Probably the most consumer-y thing that I want for X-mas is a portable digital media player that can run RockBox. I really want to get more into podcasts and videocasts and that sort of thing, but I'd like to have a portable player for the stuff. Chaining myself to an iPod is just too unpleasant. Any suggestions?
Hampr
My friend Ryan Finnie, created the excellent one-disk recovery distro Finnix. He also just started a new bookmarking service called Hampr, complete with its own Hampr FireFox extension. One thing I like about the service is that it uses OpenID, and only OpenID, for login and user profile services. It's the latest on the directory of OpenID-enabled sites. A cool idea, and it works well for me.
The new look
OK, it's the old new look, but this article on current style in Web design is interesting and informative. Good job.