Don't you just hate it when a noisy new neighbor moves in, disrupting your sleep and making it difficult to get any serious work done? Normally I do too, but I'm making an exception for my new baby daughter. ! She arrived on December 2 and I'm totally going to blame her for not having any hot buttons to write about this week. We think she's worth.... 1 million dollars.…
I'm fascinated by names. That may not be surprising, given that my first child is about to be born, but long before my wife and I were expecting — actually, even before I met my wife — I would check out the cool graphs at the Baby Name Wizard site and compare the popularity of different names from different eras. The ebb and flow of name popularity feels like a revealing snapshot of society, but I'm not sure what exactly it…