TBWAIN - AKA Jeff Svare's Blog

Owing to the many news reports circulating regarding the end of the first decade of the 21st century, let me say this: This isn't it. The current millennium began 1 January 2001. The first decade of this millennium will end on 31 December 2010. That's 364 days from now. Take a look here for more information on when this millennium began.

Don't hold me to any of these. In an attempt to get "member non-enthusiasts" stoked to use new.Familysearch.org developers will create a Wii interface that will go online in Q2. "Just 500 more points and you can add another ancestor!" A major player in the online genealogy community will try to open up a new market by reserving a new domain, then fill it with US census records, passenger lists, and city directories, stating, "It's new content tailored for people in (insert country name here)." There may be more.

I think Dickens said it well: "Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, he was a second father. He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world. Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have the malady in less attractive forms. His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him." Merry Christmas.