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Move to Blogger?

I've had a blog over at Xanga.com for about three years now. I've used it a lot less frequently since I got a new job about a year and a half ago, so I'm thinking of switching over to Blogger. It has just about everything I would ever need in a blog, it's free, and it plays well with Flickr. I haven't really decided yet, so I set this up and we'll see if I actually use it.

Books and Movies of 2006

About a year and a half ago I bought a beautiful 2006 wall calendar of Toulouse-Lautrec posters.  I quickly realized that I really don't have much use for wall calendars.  So, I decided to use it to keep track of what I read and what movies I saw for the year of 2006.  I only recorded books that I had read for personal enjoyment (no textbooks!) and movies that I had seen in the theater.  So, today I took down the calendar and had a look at my year in book and film.
JANUARY
The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs
King Kong
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
Munich
Casanova
Brokeback Mountain

FEBRUARY
Basin and Range by John McPhee
Eight Below
In Suspect Terrain by John McPhee

MARCH
The Three Burials of Melquiadas Estrada
Failure to Launch
V for Vendetta
Rising from the Plains by John McPhee

APRIL
Ask the Dust
Assembling California by John McPhee
Crossing the Craton by John McPhee
Mozart and the Whale
A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton
Thank You for Smoking

MAY
Friends with Money
Explorers House by Robert M. Poole
Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire
The Truth (with Jokes) by Al Franken
Lucy by Ellen Feldman
X-men 3: The Last Stand

JUNE
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
The Break-Up
An Inconvenient Truth
The Lake House
A Prairie Home Companion

JULY
The Devil Wears Prada
Millennials Rising by Howe & Strauss
You, Me and Dupree
Pirates of the Carribbean: Dead Man's Chest
The Geographer's Library by Jon Fasman
My Super Ex-Girlfriend
The Da Vinci Code
1421: The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies

AUGUST
Superman Returns
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Scoop
Freakonomics by Levitt & Dubner
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

SEPTEMBER
Little Miss Sunshine
The Illusionist
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
House of Sand

OCTOBER
Hollywoodland
Man of the Year

NOVEMBER
A People's History of the Supreme Court by Peter Irons
Marie Antoinette
Housekeeping vs. The Dirt by Nick Hornby
For Your Consideration

DECEMBER
Until I Find You by John Irving
The Holiday
The Restless Northwest by Hill Williams
Citizen Vince by Jess Walter
Casino Royale
Blood Diamond
The Good Shepherd
Rocky Balboa
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Dreamgirls

Currently Reading (but not finished in 2006): A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby