Tick... Tick... Tick...

Well, here we are in the waning hours of 2005... Is it just me, or is 2005 kind of a cool, vaguely science-fictional sounding year? 2006 just doesn't have quite the same ring to it somehow.

2005's been an interesting, eventful year, both for me personally and for the world at large, though, in the latter case, I suppose a lot of it's been interesting in the "Chinese curse" sense... With any luck, maybe next year will be a bit less interesting and a bit more peaceful.

Anyway, Happy New Year to those of you in time zones where it's already past midnight, or those of you not reading this 'til after midnight, or to... Well, OK, to everybody, really.

Now if only I could get that damned U2 song out of my head...