Yes it is. So sing it LOUD:
Conjunction junction what's your function?!
hookin up words and phrases and clauses.

CONJUNCTION JuncTion WHATS your FUNCTION?!
hookin up words and phrases and clauses.

I THOUGHT SO!

Rock on! 2004 is gonna be on FIRE! Lolly says so!
-joe

This guy squeezed by. I had to laugh. A regional directory of Chad... images of judges inspecting "hanging chads" flashed in my mind.

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(Yes I know there is a country named Chad)

In 93 percent of the cases examined, the strategy that a company emerges with (at exit) is completely different from the strategy it set out to implement. More interesting tidbits on startups here: Ross Mayfield's Weblog: Successful Startups Iterate

In other news: small biz is big and getting bigger... the FedEx Survey on Entrepreneurship shows:

• 56% of Americans dream of starting their own business (E.M. Couple this with 40% of college students who responded in another study that owning their own business is a major goal for attending school and we see an entrepreneurial revolution at hand).
• 
  10% of Americans already own their own business (E.M. Think of all the special interest groups influencing our public policy with much smaller numbers than this).

Here's an Interview of MS's IM guy by Eric Allman. Looks like MS is sticking with SIMPLE. I have done a little work with SIMPLE and SIP, and I have to say that SIMPLE pales in comparison to XMPP/Jabber. I use jabber on a daily basis. Nothing quite beats a secure realtime pipe with your team. Now if only I could get everyone to use it ;-)

Unrelated: I took a photo of sunrise this morning. It's not very good, but there you go...

My Dad sent us a link to an article about faith. More articles by Ron Rolheiser.