After a week of travel, I’m getting ready to head back to SF tomorrow. It’s been a great trip, as I’ve been able to spend time with large portions of my friends and family. I also worked from the Cambridge and New York Google offices, which was enjoyable.

I really liked this new year’s ad from Electrabel (in Belgium, I think):

(via zefrank, who also has the making-of video in that post)

Marcin Wichary (a Googler I know) also posted some pictures he took of San Francisco on New Year’s Eve:

View the whole set, it’s worth it. I really like the way the fog interacts with the lights.

Normal posting should resume soon.

I’ve been generally disappointed with Obama’s ads during this campaign. With some exceptions, they’re very typical political ads. They don’t reach the outrageous height’s of McCain’s “kindergarten” and “dishonorable” ads, but I expect better from Obama.

His latest ad falsely charges that McCain will cut medicare benefits. It just seems so wasteful to criticize like that when there are so many other valid, important criticisms to be made. Same goes for McCain, whose ads seem to be focused on insubstantive fear-mongering more and more lately.