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Matthew Lang

Family guy and web developer

I did read a few tweets about disappointing characters but I think they will evolve in the next movie.

Tonight marks the start of one of my Christmas traditions. The annual reading of A Christmas Carol.

Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

— A Christmas Carol

I received my first copy of the book 30 years ago. I've missed a few readings of it over the years but I haven't missed a reading of it in the last 15 years. The story, the language, the characters, everything about it is fantastic.

DuckDuckGo: Still Growing

Great to see that DuckDuckGo is still growing.

Through Dec. 15, DuckDuckGo received 3.25 billion search queries this year, according to its publicly posted traffic statistics. That’s up 74% over the same period last year. Monday, Dec. 14 was its first day with more than 12 million direct queries.

DuckDuckGo, the search engine that doesn’t track its users, grew more than 70% this year by Quartz

Although still not in the same league as Google, I think it's only a matter of time before they start to encroach on Google's dominance of the search industry.

Seen the new Moments feature on the Twitter’s website and iOS app. Not that taken with it. Does it work based on location?

All I can say is thank goodness for other apps like Tweetbot that don’t have this and hopefully won’t be including it.