Happy holidays to all the macosxhints readers throughout the world. As we head into the week of Christmas, I thought I'd share a (bandwidth wasting but fun) movie I created using iStopMotion, this week's Pick of the Week (click the image or the link to play the movie; embedding in Geeklog didn't work very well!):
I know, I know ... stick to my day job ... or was that my early morning job? Whatever; iStopMotion is lots of fun to play with, even for those of us with limited artistic talent!
I have posted quite a few new hints today (Sunday), as I do not intend to update the site often (if at all) this coming week. Instead of posting hints, there are a few large projects that I'd like to finish up (editing the book, working on the site migration, finishing my Macworld presentation), in addition to spending time with my family and friends at this most important time of the year.
The hints can wait a week or so, and, to be completely honest, after about 1,200 hours of work on the site (and book and email and forums) this year, I'm just a bit burned out on the 4:30am wake up calls for site updates. No, this doesn't mean I'm shutting the site down, nor am I passing the task on to someone else. I still love the site and the community, and intend to keep doing this for as long as that's a true statement! I just need a bit of a break, and I need to strike a bit better balance for next year -- not writing a book will certainly help, as will the newest Geeklog upgrade, if/when I manage to finish it. And if you're cursing me for not updating this week, please keep in mind that I try my best here with limited time available (given the full-time day job), and that you'll get these types of things with a single operator site such as macosxhints. Sorry, but it comes with the territory.
There may be an occasional update or two this week (I'll keep an eye on the queue each day for particularly relevant stories), but for the most part, consider the site to be on hiatus this week. Regular updates will return on Monday, December 30th.
Thanks for understanding, and I hope each of you has a safe, fun, and fulfilling holiday season ... it's been a great year for OS X and the Mac, and I can't wait to see what 2003 brings.
Your humble editor;
-rob.

