ScienceFiction.com Launches and a Few Other Things

Merry Christmas to my readers and friends, sitting here on Christmas Eve while my kiddos play with all of their new toys (and my daughter takes over my new iPad) I thought I would post a few thoughts from events this past week.

First off congrats to my good friend and fellow blogger Patrick Ruddell for his launch of ScienceFiction.com, Patrick is a hard worker and great promoter and he deserves a big congratulations on the acquisition of this great domain name and the press on TechCrunch.com. I am looking forward to see what he has up his sleeve as far as marketing and plans for this site.

Also, thanks to Morgan Linton for the very kind words on this post today about reflecting and domainers that have changed his life. Morgan is a true friend, as bright and energetic as they come and just all around great guy.

Another random thought, last year Facebook was big over the holidays, but it is AMAZING to me how mainstream it is this holiday compared to last year. Check out your newsfeed on Facebook and it is filled with pictures, videos, and everything else surrounding Christmas, mostly posted by people that last year at this time probably did not know a whole lot about it and for sure did not know how to upload videos or pictures to the site. Times they are a changing.

On a side note, as much as Twitter is great, I see a whole lot less of this holiday chatter on Twitter, which makes sense if you look at how people actually use Twitter versus Facebook.

If you have not read the post at TheDomains.com about the percentage of Christmas sales done over the internet read it now. If you do business online or have a business that wants to stay in business for the long haul you do not want to ignore the shift that is happening more and more everyday. People are looking online and the percentage actually buying rather than just looking online increases everyday.

And one more interesting story to read, the 10 Hottest Private Companies in Tech, if you want to know where dollars are going take a look, hint hint, lots of social.

Enjoy your holiday and be safe! Do NOT DRINK AND DRIVE, remember there are other people on the roads that would like to make it home safe. Do not ruin your holiday by making a decision to drive when you think you are ok but your reaction time says otherwise.

Enjoy The Office Christmas Party – Do Not Drink And Drive

A very non-domain name related post today but it is the time of the year that everyone heads out to their office Christmas party and has a bit too much egg nog and thinks they are just fine driving home. At that point they become a weapon on the streets and, well, threaten my children and everyone elses.

For the past 10 years I have worked from home for companies that were based elsewhere so I never had much to do with any office Christmas party. This year, even though we picked the date late, I will be attending an office Christmas party (tonight) and there will be plenty of adult beverages and fun. BUT, one thing I WILL NOT be doing is driving after drinking.

Yes I am preaching here, deal with it, if it bothers you then you are the person I am preaching too...

I am the first person who loves to party, I like a good time, I like my rum and Coke, a nice glass of wine, or maybe a beer or two but one rule I have had (since high school, and you can imagine I caught crap from it) is that I DO NOT drink and drive, even if I have had just one beer I will wait a period of time before I will drive.

Once you have children this really changes, when I think about some moron out there who has had way to much to drink, been partying it up at the office Christmas party, and then gets out on the road thinking they are ok because, you know they are cool and all and they can handle it. Well you cannot, it just takes one bad swerve into the other lane to KILL someones children because of your lack of maturity.

So, grow up, let someone else drive, and have a great time and let everyone come home safe and enjoy Christmas next week.