The new Caliphate

A review of the latest agreement with Lebanon, Hezbollah, Iran and the French goes something like this. Hezbollah is responsible for kidnappings, murders, hijackings

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Systems versus parts

I’m what you call a “systems” guy. I was a software architect, that not only engineered many parts of things, but figured out how

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Early Experiences

I may have bought the iPhone because I hate Motorola phones that much (and their atrocious excuse for a UI). But I also wanted

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Early Adopter

My story goes something like this; the Valley Faire mall (the “San Jose” Apple store) is literally 1/2 mile off my commute home from

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Wither the pen, I think the keyboard is far mightier

A friend (John Welch) and I were talking about pen centric computing, and we were in fierce agreement that it is not the revolution that some people pretend. Coincidentally, or because of the renewed interest, I saw an excellent speech on the state of the art in pen computing; what Microsoft and other researchers around the country are doing with the technology and where they expect it to go.

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Guess who’s coming to dinner

Yesterday was SuperBowl Sunday, just in case you weren’t paying attention. Of course you know that the Seattle Ospreys got their wings clipped. They

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What’s next?

Pilosi who is a hard left democrat is claiming that they are going to work to be bipartisan. That is harder from her position

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Same as I ever was

It’s funny, I’m the same person that I’ve always been. I created a Mac website because I couldn’t stand dishonesty and just following the

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Flight of the bumblebee

You’ve probably heard the adage that scientists proved that the bumblebee can’t fly. You may have even repeated it yourself, right? As far as

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State of the Union…

The President did his State of the Union address, here’s a quick recap of my views on the subject. The President started with honoring

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The middle east

Here’s a brief history of the current event. This doesn’t try to be sensitive to feelings, but instead looks at common sense; 6 Years

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A week in review…

Let’s look what has been going on lately in American politics and media in the last week (or two). We have recently had Hilary

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Happy Mother’s Day

Just some ramblings from a homeless traveller. I went out to California for a family wedding, which was at the Ritz Carlton in Dana

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Happy tax day!

Albert Einstein said “The most confusing force in the universe is the United States income tax code”. If Albert Einstein couldn’t understand this tax

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Legal Beagles

Here’s a must read article about how Apple legal made a little girl cry : http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1672a that demonstrates a major problem in our society.

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Armchair Generals

There’s a lot of criticism that Rumsfeld and the Bush Administration blew execution of the war; the latest with the generals attacking Rummy. In

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