Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays to all my regular readers! Wishing you, your family and friends the best over the holidays.

A Coffield family tradition is painting Christmas cookies each year. It all started with an incredible women and family neighbor, Mrs. Martin, who lived into her 100s. Mrs. Martin collected cookie cutters (and I mean collected). Most draws in her kitchen were full of cookie cutters from around the world. Each year she would invite all the neighbor kids into her house to paint cookies with brushes and decorate them with what now seems like hundreds of toppings. A wonderful childhood experience. Watching it now with my own children and others who happen to stumble into the event is the way it brings out the creativity of people. Below are a few photos of this years artwork.

Give One Get One: Tech It Forward . . .

I like the concept behind the movie, Pay It Forward. Why not "Tech It Forward."

Looking for a unique holiday gift? Why not buy and give an XO Laptop through the Give One Get One program. Take a moment and think about how much you use your computer and the power it gives you to work, learn, think, communicate and so on . . .

The computer and concept of getting compters in the hands of children around the world is the brainchild of Professor Nicholas Negroponte of MIT. You have options: giving one or more ($200 each one tax-deductible), give 1 and get 1 (still get the tax deduction for 1/2 the price) or give many and designate where they go in the world.

For more information about the program and a review of the XO Laptop check out this NYT article, Laptop With a Mission Widens Its Audience.

UPDATE: Denise Howell has similar holiday thoughts for a tech stocking stuffer with a link to the tech uproar on This Week in Tech.