While letting iTunes update the list of podcasts, I randomly asked the twitter what podcasts people listened on a regular basis. I received a reply from @donreisinger doing a little self-promotion (which was not needed!) and from @n2teaching with a couple suggestions I did not have on my list.

Instead of posting my list of podcasts on twitter, I might as well post them here and point folks to this list. The list changes from time to time and there are a few old selections in here, which I probably should re-visit. It includes a mix of tech, development, humor and good-for-running selections.

Diggnation, The Digital Home podcast from CNET, Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders, HBR IdeaCast, Hivelogic Radio, Lullabot Podcast, MackBreak Weekly, Manager Tools, The Maniacal Rage Podcast, The Merlin Show, net@night, One Phat DJ Podcast, Podcasts at Penn State – ETS Talk, Podrunner, Rails Envy Podcast, RedMonk Podcasts (itmanagement), The Rissington Podcast, Ruby on Rails podcast, Security Now!, The Talk Show, This American Life, This Week in Photography, This Week in Tech, Venture Voice, Windows Weekly, WNYC’s Radio Lab

update: decided to update the post with links to the actual pages where one can subscribe to the shows.

Forgetting by xkcd – webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

A colleague shared a couple of quotes from Thomas Carlyle.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance,but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

I have been thinking a lot about my website and in particular what to do with my weblog (blog). The tendency has been to transform personal websites from blogs onto tumblelogs, where tumblr is the popular kid in the block. I will probably experiment with Tumblr in the next year, but I am not ready to give up on my blog!

I have a couple of ideas that I will bring to life as part of my blog in 2008. I want to improve my writing, be part of The Conversation, give back to the local community and I believe I can only do so with putting some effort and attention to my blog. There is a great technical community here in Phoenix and I would like to play an active role in said community.

2007 was a very good year from a personal point of view, I hope 2008 brings us all plenty of laughter, health and much success. Hopefully, it will also bring more content to this little corner of the Internet!

This year we will be hosting Thanksgiving at our house. My parents arrived last night and Karen & Graham will also be joining us for dinner. K & G are our neighbors from Toronto, making our Thanksgiving the first NAFTA Thanksgiving that I am aware of!