How smart do we want our devices to be? Would you like one that would sense your mood, then play the appropriate music? You and this device would be expected to have a training period in which it will learn your preferences and emotional states.

In November 2006, a paper will be presented at the Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile Technology, Applications and Systems, in which more information will be revealed.

GFS Projects, headed by Hatton, has produced an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that has piqued the interest of U.S. defense personnel.

At the GFS site, there is a video of this remarkable craft.

Most reviews of it will give away the surprise, which is unfortunate. The setting is the Gobi Desert, the cast is Mongolian, the animals are not Disneyfied, the dialogue is minimal, and the little white camel colt will steal your heart.

Dinner? Leftover roast chicken and a salad with Roma tomatoes, cauliflower, cucumber, and Trader Joe’s salad mix. Would it have killed me to stop at Peninsula Creamery?

Well, no. But then I would have felt guilty.

A few minutes before, I had contemplated getting ice cream at the Peninsula Creamery. But it was too close to dinnertime, and there was another movie waiting.

It was warm, and I’d forgotten where Anthropologie was. (I didn’t go far enough down the street.) What other store would put their locations in the form of the Periodic Table?

Working my way through 10 lbs after finding them on sale at Safeway.

But only when I’m hungry.

Eating when you’re hungry, stopping when you’re full. It sounds so simple, but how many of us actually do this? Do we eat because it is noon, and not stop till the entire plate is empty? Do we eat because everyone is having popcorn, and it smells so good?

It means no restraints on the kind of foods you like, whether it be pasta or potatoes. Sweets are fine. But when you’re full, you stop.

Do you listen to audiobooks in the car? On the train? On your walk?

Here are the top 10 choices for 2005.