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Happy Birthday, Kurt

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You'll never look a day over 25...and that makes me very sad.

Thoughts on This Year's Super Bowl

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Basically I could care less. What a waste of a great football year.

A Brief History of Pirates, Piracy, and Freedom

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Many years ago, when Europeans discovered a new world, a golden age of commerce sprang up like never before seen. The Spaniards hit the gold mine, literally, the French found luxurious furs, and the British found their next cash crop, tobacco. With wealth growing at a fever pitch, a scourge began to grow within the seas. Pirates. Pirates were a criminal element that used brains, muscle, and speed to find any weak link within the inter-sea commerce trade. They accomplished this by ripping off ships, ravaging port towns, and creating overall fear and havoc. With the passage of time, better technologies, and stiffer penalties, piracy as it was known in the 16th century slowly died out. It exists even to this day, but that is another topic for a different time. My mention of these pirates in this context has to do with modern "piracy" or the theft of music, movies, and other media and then distributed freely over the internet. Over the years we have seen many vehicles for t...

2011: A Year

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Part of me looks at the last day of the year as just another day of the year. I haven't been known to celebrate a new year by attending a party, or hanging out with friends, I just reflect and make sure I hold on to what I learned as best I can. This was a year of learning, not just for me, but for the world. In January, while I was installing a new computer system and database at work, tides of revolution began to sweep through Africa and the Middle East. While I tried to find the thief of our garbage bin, the world rocked with heavy earthquakes. While trying to decide who would play me in the future untitled movie about me, we all  got to know the bravery of Rep. Giffords after being shot by a deranged gunman in Arizona. In February, while I was celebrating a Super Bowl win from my beloved Packers and relished at the Lombardi trophy returning to Green Bay, Sudan splits raising a democratic southern state from the ashes and years of strife.  While I was travelling the s...

Merry Christmas!

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 Enjoy the Season.

Back With Rants

I looked at my poor blog and realized that I haven't posted anything in a month. This year has gone entirely too fast. How about some rants? My latest distraction from regular posts at my blog has been regular posts at my other blog, Android Activist and Google Plus . I have formed and found such a great community of people, photographers, engaging and interesting people, and a variety of view points and world views. I have really enjoyed keeping up with people there and have completely neglected my site here, Twitter, and all the other internet stuff that now just seems so unimportant. I'm ready to consolidate my digital life to one place and devote more and more of my waking time with waking real people. I, like most have been doing a steady eye roll since the Christmas shopping season starts around Halloween now. Part of me understands the desperation of retail and car companies to move inventory in these challenging times, but the holiday burn out is only going to get ...

Full on iPhone? Dessert is Coming

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Are you tired of the constant, endless, non stop, relentless, now repetitive iPhone talk? Has the fanboy enthusiasm become utterly nauseating? Google and Samsung will be unveiling the next Nexus phone, providing the purest Android experience. Along with the hardware announcement, Google will debut Ice Cream Sandwich, its delicious next operating system for the Android headset. This all happens Tuesday night, around 9PM Eastern time. I will be watching and talking about it with other enthusiasts at Radio Android/ Android and Me's combined live post announcement discussion. The blog that I write for will be there as well to talk about these exciting releases. You can find Android Activist here .  If you want to see the future of smart phones and even see what Apple will be announcing in 2012 with their next device, you're going to want to tune in . The live announcement will be broadcast on Youtube . Check your local listings!