recapping 2004: don't bother

the 21st-century digital road warrior should resist the urge to recap 2004; nothing good happened last year, at least not to you. indeed, since 1604 there have been only four years that were good through and through: 1979, 1803, 1492, and 1776. take out your notebook and write it down: 'look relentlessly forward, because everything behind is shit.' and give thanks, as 2005 lurches toward the dustbin of recent history in its own time, for free advice.