You've mentioned most of the ones that I had thought of actually. I hope that 2004 can bring stability and *peace* to the Israel and Palestine situation.
Personally, my wife and I celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary. On Dec. 10th I celebrated my 3rd year of sobriety (2 years of non-smoking coming in Feb.) and I left a position as the Manager of Engineering worldwide for the world's largest provider of computer training and accepted an offer as Sr. Network/Systems Engineer for a top 50 Microsoft Gold Partner.