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The 365-day forecast

It's true I'm a little late, but having sampled a twelfth of it, I'm arguing that my presentiment is better informed—8.3% better informed.

Self-styled prophets and would-be profiteers spend most of late December and early January ordaining the new year. For instance, 2005 is the Year of the Document Object Model, according to many. Others contend it is the Year of P2P. Or the Great Blog Backlash. Or VoIP.

(In case you slept through it or had your mind on other things, 2004 was or should have been the Year of the Nipple, the Neighbourhood Bistro, Puppet Sex, the Oklahoma Green Party, the traditional wheat beer of Belgium's Payottenland region, and incidentally, VoIP.)

So while it's still just barely January, let me offer my own comparatively humble forecast: 2005 is the year that liveblogging your nervous breakdown became the new picture of your cat.

And pencil me down for June 21.

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Ned

Regarding VoIP:

At the urging of my Kiwi Cousin I signed up for Skype - a free phone service over the internet thingy. Chewed up my downloads a little, but really… free calls across the globe! Then I started receiving strange calls from unknown Phillipino girls, and then my cousin told me that dubious intelligence organisations were spying on him through his Skype hookup.

So, having been duly “Skyped” I scrubbed and scrubbed and finally managed to erradicate it from my PC… feeling just a little dirtier.

Does anyone know anything about these people? The legitimate calls I took part in were great - especially the wearing of headphones and talking into a microphone part…. and the free part.