Considering the iPad

There was quite a bit of buzz leading up to the most recent Apple product announcement. By the time Steve Jobs took the stage there was practically nothing he could have said that would met those expectations. Reaction What I find interesting is the way people are responding to this new product. I’d expect all [...]

New year resolution

I don’t really like New Year’s Resolutions. The way I see it, if there’s something I want to get done or never do again, there’s no better time to start than now. There’s no sense waiting around until the new year begins. I doubt many people actually put off changing until the new year (unless [...]

Too many degrees

It seems like everyone around me is in law school or working on some other type of graduate degree. What’s up with that? Why aren’t they more complacent? Why don’t they just go out into the work force and happily make their meager salaries? They’re just making things more difficult for people like me. I’ve [...]

Alchemy

I finished The Alchemist last night. Personal Legend needs a new title. It could be Life Quest or Personal Vision or Grand Adventure or anything like that. I’d even take capital-p Purpose. Personal Legend is just too fantasy. “But, David,” you say, “it is fantasy. A man cannot talk to the sun and cause the wind [...]

Consolidate

I’ve blogged in many different ways over the years. It was livejournal for a while, then myspace, then my own custom blog software, then . . . nothing, maybe WordPress? My first mistake may have been to ever start blogging in the first place. My second was to switch venues whenever I got bored. Hopefully [...]