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Is there a football game on today or something? Or is it a concert with intermittent sports?

Just a quick note to let you all know that this is the sixth year that we’ll be blogging the Golden Globe Awards. Some sites might give you the results but we give that AND minute-by-minute commentary on the kick-off to the big awards season. Join us starting at 8pm.

When I’m not doing the entertainment-related stuff like watching flicks, taking photos and covering awards, you’ll find me elbow-deep in the guts of the site — coding XHTML, writing database backends, and trying to keep DigitalHit.com standards-compliant and accessible to people using a variety of browsers and devices. The fun stuff that requires a lot of coffee, late nights, but luckily no tuxedos.

To keep on top of all this stuff I read a lot of people daily. The great thing about all of them is that their sites don’t just keep you informed, they also exude the humanity of the person behind each keyboard.

My two über-gurus are Zeldman and CodeBitch. Great writers and fighters for standards-compliant designs and browsers that will actually follow ‘em without exploding. In no other particular order, here are the people that help inform, teach and amuse me.

• Mark Pilgrim – dive into mark
• Doc Searls – The Doc Searls Weblog
• Adrian Holovaty – holovaty.com
• Jeremy Zawodny – Jeremy Zawodny’s blog
• Phil Ringnalda – phil ringnalda dot com – a digital magpie
• John Lim – PHP Everywhere
• Scott Andrew – scottandrew.com
• Todd Dominey – What Do I Know
• Dean Allen – Textism

Just Married made it to number one at the box office? Man, oh man, does that say something about civilization.

If you haven’t seen The Smoking Gun’s collection of the “best mug shots of 2002”: https://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/endmugs1.html, grab a coffee and go have a chuckle.

Maurice Gibb was always my favorite Bee Gee. I’m not sure why. I think it’s because he reminded me of Ringo.

I know you’re already thinking what to buy me for Xmas next December. I wouldn’t say no to this.

Still, socks are always nice.

I was watching The Bachelorette last night…I have to I’m an entertainment reporter…and it’s comforting to see that even network television can suffer from bad proofreading.

While showing upcoming clips from the series, they showed a photo of Drew Brees, who they had listed as “Quaterback” for the San Diego Chargers. “Quaterback”?

It’s a small world after all.

It’s that weird post-Xmas period where you’re still eating leftovers but you’re no longer having the fun of grazing at the tables of your family…