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Tempus fugit (time is fleeing), so the saying goes. It seems to always go by too quickly or pass too slowly. We never seem to have enough of it while others seem to always have too much of it. We look back to a past time or look forward to a future time. We differentiate it into infinitesimally small pieces to look at atomic events and integrate it into eons to look at cosmic events. The youngest want to be older and the oldest want to be younger. Alas, time is no respecter of our desires. Here we are again back in the same point in orbit as we were a year ago in our annual journey around the sun. Not that long ago on the scale of human existence, our ancestors believed that every 365 days or so that we ended up at the same point in space each year, but now we know that while the Earth revolves about the sun, our entire solar system revolves about the center of mass of the Milky Way galaxy, which revolves about the central mass of a local cluster or galaxies, which in turn rotates about the center of the universe, which is constantly expanding from a point of origin and toward a point of termination that nobody can explain. Academe's ultimately and equally qualified advocates of the Big Bang Theory, String Theory, the Perpetual Universe Theory, and Fill-in-the-Blank Theory cannot agree on when time began, precisely what it is now, or when it will end; however they can agree that time and space suddenly appeared from nowhere and randomly formed into you and me and everything around us. But I digress. So, as 2005 draws to a close, the entire staff here at RF Cafe (that would be Melanie and Me) hopes you have had a successful year, and wish you a bountiful and rewarding 2006. Throughout 2005, we have strived daily to bring you the latest and relevant news in the industry, seek out and promote useful resources, tweak website formulae to to maximize efficiency, and provide filtered access to component vendors. Maybe as importantly, our unfettered control of RF Cafe's content has permitted the freedom to include maybe-as-important inclusion of humor, personal commentary, and recreational diversions from the rigors of engineering life. The corporate-run websites are to be beholden to big dollar legislators to allow such risky behavior. You and our other visitors must approve because our page hits have increased by an average of about 1,000 per day (from 8k to 9k) this year. The support and appreciation shown by website visitors and advertisers has been overwhelming, and we hope to make RF Cafe an even bigger success for everyone in the coming year. Thank you! In keeping with the time-honored traditional of looking back over the past year to highlight some of the most newsworthy events, the following items stand out. Overall, it has been a pretty good year.
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