I like Ted Wallingford’s top 10 for holiday gift giving. Any particular order Ted? The rule at our house is that you gotta have something under the tree that you can open and play with like right away. No surpise then that the Nintendo Wii is at Number 1. Hmmm.

We just had our first winter storm blow through. The result was twenty-seven hours of no power. After the first two hours my son proclaimed the most boring day of his life (no computer, no Nintendo). In the midst of trying almost every home VOIP solution under the sun, I’ve still hung onto my landline. Good thing too. Even my cell phone battery died. Of course, my PhoneGnome didn’t mind. Without power or Internet connection, landline calls worked just fine thanks.