Well, that was a year. Hopefully this one will be better than the last one, although I'm just too superstitious to say that it couldn't possibly be any worse. 2003 started on a relatively high note and then sort of slid downhill into "everything worth having rusts". I have this fond hope that things turned around ever so slightly at dinner time last night, though.
Thanks to Dan Eisenbud for inspiration for the title of this entry; I ran into him at a party last night and he asked how I was, and I said "I can't complain", which produced, well, a reaction from the audience, although no one said "What, did you lose that part of the brain in an accident?". So we concluded that "I won't complain" is the best polite-but-actually-true response to that sort of question in many cases... from someone like me, anyway.
In other news, "elder brother also speaks" has become appropriate, as my sister has a blog now. She called hers "Eclectic Glob of Tangential Verbosity", which is consistent in a way that I don't think I can describe in words to people. Now she (like Ken Macleod) just needs to get an RSS feed.
Link dumps, more UI, and technical rants to follow, hopefully.
