GearBits

Happy Thanksgiving

On this American Thanksgiving holiday, I'd like to share a short and invariably incomplete list of some of the people and things for which I'm most thankful, in no particular order.

• My family, my friends, and my colleagues (most of whom, I'm lucky to say, are really part of that 'friends' category anyway)

• The collective health of everyone I care about

• TiVo, for it saves me time and allows me to actually enjoy TV

• The Palm Operating System, for keeping my life sane and making otherwise tedious tasks a little more enjoyable

• Personal liberty, despite its costs

• USB, for allowing me not to have to worry about serial and parallel ports

• Thomas Edison, Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce, Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Metcalfe, Bill Hewlett, Dave Packard, Jeff Hawkins, and everyone else who has positively influenced the technological landscape over the years

• Good fiction, for balancing the non-fiction I have to read

• Wi-Fi, for cutting the cord

• Human creativity, without which very little else would be possible

• My wife, who, for me, is the difference between living and merely being alive

So what are you thankful for?