Since this is the last entery for the year it is kind of appropriate for the first few internesting things that I found on the internet to be related to time.
I found to pages on a website, http://www.minasi.com/ under the goffing off section, about time. One show how long each day really is ( they are not all 24 hours), http://www.minasi.com/dolog.htm , and the other lists the differences between a sundials clock and a watch, http://www.minasi.com/doeot.htm

I foudn out about a interesting site, http://www.googlewhack.com that is a site that lists 2 word searchers that return extactly one result.

This is way cool, http://direct.msn.com/ , it is the home page for the new SPOT , Smart Personal Objects Technology , from MS. Serval watch makers have watches coming out in january , Fossial is one of them,  look at fossils here
This site has some info, http://www.spotsmart.com/ 

Here is a nice little free tool that will let you edit/delete typed url, http://www.webattack.com/get/editurl.html

Here is a nice use of flash, a greeting card that the link was emailed, same email, nice use of the internet.  http://www.cardiff.com/flash/card_opt12.html

Here are some cool products that any nerd would like, http://www.scottevest.com and http://www.egrips.com

SQL SERVER STUFF
I was on www.sqlservercentral.com and was reading some artilce from Christoffer Hedgate and saw a review of a product called SQL Stripes, http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/chedgate/reviewofsqlstripes.asp , it is a nice little app. One of those you keep meanig to write. Well, some one did it for you and right now for the price of $0.00 ( free thats right , free) . Here is a link to the prodcut, http://stripes.docmusic.com

As you will soon see todays entry is about XML Schema stuff. Although, I am not a big fan of XML since it is very word and cause files to be much larger than their counter part CSV or Fixed Width file they do offer advantages when you need to read the file with human eyes or the number of fields are large and the required fields per record are much smaller which then can reduce the file size.  If done correctly a saved XML file an do substitution of common strings to help reduce file size. 
Here is an article from MS about creating XML Schema from a Class, http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/howto/doc/xmlserialization/XSDFromCls.aspx

Here is a Walthrough from MS for creating a XML schema  with the XML designer in Visual Studio .NET , http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vbcon/html/vbwlkwalkthoughdesigningpurchaseorderschema.asp

This is the W3C page on Schema, http://www.w3.org/XML/Schema#dev
This page has a list of tools and the Specifications and Development section as some primers that are good.

here are some links to some other appliactions that help build XML scheme,
 XMLWritter From Wattle Software ( around $89 US), http://xmlwriter.net/
VisualScript XML From SmartDraw.com , http://www.visualscript.com/products/visualscript/index.htm
 Sonic Stylus Studio from Sonic Software http://www.sonicsoftware.com/products/sonic_stylus_studio/index.ssp

Ever need to delete duplicate records, this query will do it

DELETE FROM products
WHERE recID NOT IN(
SELECT MAX(recID)
FROM products
GROUP BY productcode,productdate)

or this one

DELETE  FROM products
WHERE EXISTS (
SELECT 1
FROM products prd1
WHERE products.productcode = prd1.productcode AND products.productdate = prd1.productdate
AND products.recid < prd1.recid )

both will keep the record with the largest recid, if you want the smallest then change , products.recid < prd1.recid , to products.recid > prd1.recid  , in the second version. In the first version change the Max function to a Min.  The second version should be faster if on a large table.

sample table

RECID	ProductCode	ProductDate
1	a123	2003-10-12 00:00:00
4	a123	2003-10-13 00:00:00
6	a123	2003-10-30 00:00:00
5	a123	2003-10-30 00:00:00
2	b	2003-10-15 00:00:00
8	b	2003-10-31 00:00:00
7	b	2003-10-31 00:00:00
3	w	2003-10-15 00:00:00

The resulting table would look like this:

RECID	ProductCode	ProductDate
1	a123	2003-10-12 00:00:00
4	a123	2003-10-13 00:00:00
6	a123	2003-10-30 00:00:00
2	b	2003-10-15 00:00:00
8	b	2003-10-31 00:00:00
3	w	2003-10-15 00:00:00

Here are some great flash itmes from E-Tractions.com  , check them out
Snow Globe - http://ww12.e-tractions.com/snowglobe/intro.htm
Some Funny Games - http://ww12.e-tractions.com/web_dev/content/examples_fr.htm

If you like google and are ready to take it to the next step then learn to use the advanced features , http://www.google.com/help/operators.html  , then there are these services that they offer , http://www.google.com/help/features.html , like you can type 5*3/48 and it will do the math.
Here is a complete list of some of the services they offer like a API to make searches and offer customer stuff, http://www.google.com/options/index.html  , like http://www.googlealert.com/
If you want to see what google is up to check out the labs page, http://labs.google.com/  , and you might dicover that google has a test doing voice phone searches, http://labs1.google.com/gvs.html