This morning I was mowing the lawn while listening to the “This Week in Google” podcast on my mp3 player.  I was listening to episode 42 when they spend the entire podcast speaking about Facebook and their perceived privacy issues.  They spend a considerable amount of time pointing out what they believed to be Facebook’s [...]

Our beloved General Motors has just been made a public example why you should never go to the government for assistance.  I do not care if you are on the verge of homelessness, never EVER go to the government for help.  When you do this, you are forfeiting your freedoms and subjecting yourself to humiliation.  [...]

In the never ending papers that I have written over the last couple of years I have been admonished to avoid beginning with the intent of proving a point.  Many of the imposed themes of my papers were to have an open mind and understand that we live in a multicultural society with different religions, [...]

It is no secret that people have differences of opinions on virtually any topic.  It should be no surprise that you are going to have people that want to legalize marijuana usage.  I have heard many arguments on both sides of the argument.  Those people wanting to legalize it usually post about how it can [...]

This morning, against my better judgment, I was listening to a program on National Public Radio (NPR) and they were discussing American Exceptionalism.  They had a guest speaker discussing the dangers of viewing one’s self as being greater than others.  This man was a British guest that I cannot remember his name.  He pointed out that [...]

Last night I had a bad case of insomnia and missed out on a lot of sleep.  I could see this coming as we have been off work for five days.  I knew that since I had go to work this morning that I would have a hard time getting to sleep.  Unfortunately my lack [...]

With all of the horror stories going on daily on the news about the stock market and companies going through hard times it brings back a discussion during the 1992 presidential campaign. During this time the famous words uttered by another morally bankrupt person Bill Clinton were flashed across newspapers across the country. Those words [...]

I understand the temptation for signing up for the newest toy that comes out.  I have been paying attention to the computer industry for more than a decade.  One thing that has consistently been the story is the hatred people in the computer industry have for Microsoft.  Some of the stated reasons were because of [...]

Call me naive, or just plain old fashion but I am tired of accepting dishonesty as an acceptable  means for getting what you want.  This evening I was reading a post on the OKCTalk website about the Howard Shultz’s lawsuit against the owners of the Seattle Supersonics.  I began to see a trend of postings [...]

Often I find myself getting upset about comments made by some people that I really respect in the technology world, specifically in computers. An example is a technology personality that I have on my Twitter list made the comment last night that Myspace deleted a large atheist group for no “apparent” reason other than their [...]