I’m writing this on Tuesday evening Pacific Time, Dec. 30, 2008. It will be published early Friday morning, Jan. 2. So right now I can’t tell you if I was able to keep my first New Year’s resolution: to use the extra “leap second” we all got just before midnight New Year’s Eve in a wise, productive and clever fashion. The additional tick of the clock came courtesy of the earth slowly putting the brakes on its rotation. Blame the UK’s Royal Observatory, proprietors of Greenwich Mean Time, for stretching out the Economic Year of Living Dangerously.
