Holidailies 2006

Here is the world's smallest personality test:

You are sitting in a restaurant. A call comes in on your mobile phone. Do you:

1. Silence the phone and return the call after dinner.
2. Excuse yourself from the table to take the call.
3. Answer it and say you'll call back after dining.
4. Answer it and talk away.

Okay, pencils down. Let's score your results.

The Austin Bloggers web site recently was attacked by a scraper site. The scraper was grabbing our RSS feed and republishing it on their own web site, pretending it was their own content. We received no attribution and the scraper put their own copyright on the page. The scraper also plastered ads all over the stolen content, which, of course, is the whole purpose of the scam.

I've been telling Jette for many weeks that I'd help her run the Holidailies web site this year, but there is no bloody way I'm signing up to post.

I just started a new contract a month ago. I also started a new access television show. I'm on overload right now, and have so much more I could be doing. I don't need to be signing up for a month of blogging.

A year ago things were different. I had finished up one contract and didn't expect even to begin looking for a new one until the new year. I was involved in a number of interesting projects that seemed worth blogging about. I was in a good place to take the Holidailies challenge.

Yet, somehow earlier today, when I was fiddling in the database, an urge took hold of me to flip the is_participant bit next to my name from 0 to a 1. So, here I am.

Yes, I know that all sounds very lame. Now that I look back, my rationale for joining last year was pretty lame too.