Meet the new year, same as the old year? I guess time will tell.

Finally! – Thanks to my friend Craig for reminding me that Adobe Flash is now no longer supported and the software giant urges you to uninstall it from your computer. Flash was/is a technology for displaying content on the Web. It was revolutionary when it first came out and was far from perfect, including the high ability for it to be hacked. But that doesn’t mean it still isn’t out there on Web sites – including corporate Intranets. If what I said is all a blur to you, don’t worry, but if you can’t load a restaurant menu online someday then now you may know why.

Resolution Breakdown – Where paper calendars to change have mostly gone away, making resolutions at the beginning of the new year is still common for many people. Not for me, but if for you, this post by Dan Rockwell on rethinking how you structure resolutions is very insightful. I have been a fan of Rockwell and his blog Leadership Freak for years, and while you’re there check his other to-the-point and insightful writings.

Destiny – I saw a reference online to someone being called an umareli. Who knew my people had a term for what I will eventually be, if I am not partially there already.

Celtics Lost – I was sad to hear that Boston Celtics legendary player, coach and executive KC Green died this week. In reading this I also learned that another similar legend, Tommy Heinsohn, died earlier last year. One thing I will always remember about Green was when, despite his greatness, he was fired by the team when Rick Pitino was hired as coach in the late 90’s. When asked to comment on his firing, he quoted none other than Kermit the Frog saying, “it's not easy being green.” This tweet from another Celtics legend Bill Russell, shows him and Green the last time they got together.

More Of Not If But When – Synthetic identity theft is a thing- . So be diligent out there my friends.

RumChata is made in Wisconsin – Who knew? Clearly I didn’t, did you?

RumContrast – If you check out the RumChata site linked above and scroll down to the bottom, you’ll notice there’s a switch to view the site in “high contrast mode.” I’ve never seen this on a site before – I have seen similar switches to see sites in “dark mode” but this is one I will think about the next time I am working on a redesign.

Symphony of Good Design – Speaking of design, my friend Stefanos wrote a post the other day on LinkedIn comparing good design with music and had my mind not been on vacation I would have engaged with him more on it. Shortly after reading I was subjected to a new and poor user experience, the checkout for the US Postal Service’s Click-N-Ship service.

Another Agile Anniversary – In February there’ll be a live webinar for the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Agile Manifesto. What is that? First you can read the Agile Manifesto here. The signing happened at a gathering of the leaders of agile software development frameworks where they agreed to base principles on what is agile, paving the way for both more people using agile to create software and for many more to resist it.

Alone Together – I just listened to Randy Streu’s podcast mini-series Alone Together which is 4 short monologues recorded back in the late summer. As he only told me about them a few weeks ago I don’t feel bad that I missed it. Of course nobody wants to rehash 2020, but if you like well-written and spoken entertainment, it’s a good use of less than a half hour.

Exclusive Showing – Last week my family and I went to the movies, and where we have gone once or twice since last spring, this was the first time we paid “full price” for tickets, as most other showings were only $1 or some ridiculously low price. Perhaps it was all going on, or it was because we saw Croods 2, but we were the only ones in the theatre. As soon as we got home I got an email from Marcus Theatres, where we saw the film, promoting that you can rent a theatre for a private showing... which was like we just did?

I feel bad for Marcus Corp. – they are a Wisconsin-based company that runs quality movie theatres and manages hotels, and are benefactors to the communities they served. Throughout the pandemic their business has been devastated. They are one of the good ones I hope thrives again soon.

Happy Birthday TJ!

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This is from The Hot Iron, a journal on business and technology by Mike Maddaloni.

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