It seems that every other blog is touting 12/31/09 as ‘the end of the decade’, much like 12/31/99 was dubbed the end of the millennium.

Once again, a counting lesson is in order. How did you learn to count when you were a kid? Did you start counting your building blocks with ‘zero’? No, you start counting with ‘one’ followed by ‘two’ then ‘three’ and so on.

It’s the same with years. There was no year ‘zero’ way back when. So the first ten years started with 01/01/0001 and ended with 12/31/0010. This (admittedly arbitrary) decade will not end until 12/31/2010, one year from today.

Can you tell that I don’t have much to write about these days?