I'm on track to reach my second year as the editor of this blog, and it's only thanks to you, dear readers, who've eagerly visited my daily ramblings on smartphones and PDAs.

For now, I suggest you enjoy your downtime and help me with a little project I'm conducting: Over the holiday season, did your smartphones and PDAs become your masters? Did you find yourselves losing time with friends and family, as the temptations of anywhere connectivity (when it works) and portable information management proved too much to resist?

It'll be business as usual starting tomorrow. In the meantime, feel free to answer my question in the comments, and read on a recent US federal court ruling rewarding Broadcom for merely owning the patents of a technology that was developed and applied (through significant financial and time investments) by Qualcomm.