Argh!

I'm not quite over the "end of the decade" crap foisted at us by pop-culture.

No, this decade is not over yet. 2010 counts as the tenth year of the current decade, century and millenium, no matter what the knuckleheads in the media tell you.

Think about it this way: When we started using AD after the year, the first year was 1, not 0.

Another way to think about it is that we're in the 21st century, yet the first two digits are 2 and 0. That means that the First Century was years 1-100 AD, not 100-200.

I know all my ranting and raving about this elementary fact won't change the way we think about it - after all, we like nice round numbers. But still, people, show some brains!