In 2005, I did something different at the end of the year. I worked really hard to stay away from e-mail, and I didn't write any blog posts. This lead to a very relaxing end of the year vacation, which including movies with the kids, ice skating, and building a lightbox (pics on flickr). Unfortunately, it means that a ton of e-mail and other stuff has piled up, so those of you waiting for a reply from me will have to be patient a little while longer.

Also, our Christmas Day power outage trashed a disk in one of our Linux servers. If anyone has experience recovering an ext3 disk that's was part of an LVM group, I'd appreciate a comment with your experience. I've done a bunch of Googling and tried a bunch of programs, without luck. Right now e2retreive has been running for over a week now, but I've no idea whether it's going to work.