Timpani Roll

I've had the Child's Play Charity banner at the top of the blog for weeks now. The drive is over and the totals are in. This year the charity raised over $1 million for games and such for childrens' hospitals over the world. A last minute rally drove the number above $1 million. That's an outstanding achievement for such a young charity targeting specific audience. Here's hoping the number will bring more publicity to the charity and make next Christmas' drive even better. I congratulate the organizers and all those who gave so freely.

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The Gift of Fun

The end of the year brings a great many things. One of them appeared on my blog a few days ago. For those that noticed the green banner for the 2006 Child’s Play Charity has appeared at the top of the page again. Even Ars Technica has gotten in on promoting the charity. My Godfather had lamented for many years the amount of money exchanged by my extended family around Christmas. He expressed an interest in seeing some of it donated to charity, and last year I donated several items for him. This year I am taking the spot and am going to request one person donate to this charity rather than purchase something for me. I’m going to challenge my friends to do something similar. Ask someone to make a donation to a charity of your choice rather than buy you a gift.

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