Image via Wikipedia I’ve been thinking a lot about if-then statements. Those little representations of causality that seem to crop up everywhere. If one thing happens then another will transpire. It is the easiest relationship to understand, far easier to get than the complex political or emotional relationships that populate …
Image via Wikipedia This situation now exists: Google Chrome senses when a webpage is written in another language and it translates it on the fly into the language of your choice. Google Docs does the same thing with collaborative documents. This means that a great many barriers are removed from …
Image by Jesslee Cuizon via Flickr I don’t often make proclamations that I believe to be true for everyone. I don’t do this because I know that there is a high likelihood of me being wrong. So high, in fact, that I feel as though it would undermine my credibility …
Image via Wikipedia I have never understood infomercials. While they may be fun to watch or poke fun at every once in a while, I have never for a moment wanted one of those products bad enough to want to “call and order right away.” I know that there probably …
Image via Wikipedia I rode my bike today from Frisco, Co to Breckenridge, an 8 or 9 mile route one way. The path was a slow grinding incline on the way there and a downhill masterpiece on the way back. And yet, on the way back there were these two …
Image by Getty Images via @daylife I run a lot of errands to the grocery store. I pick up items like milk for my kids or spices for an upcoming meal. Almost always, though, I find myself at the checkout line looking directly at chocolate bars and sodas. I find …
Image by eschipul via Flickr Today in the car, my daughter wondered what the oil wells in the farmland of Colorado were all about. I said they were used to suck up the oil that was underneath the earth. My daughter paused, deep in thought, and then she said this …
Image via Wikipedia The wikileaks papers are exquisite. In their scope and its specificity, they are immense. I don’t fully understand all of their implications, but I know that they are not ordinary. They represent sharing on a magnitude that we have not seen for years. Or, at least that …
Image via CrunchBase There was a local chinese takeout place that my wife and I used to frequent. When we lived in the dorms, we were a stone’s throw away. But as we moved further and further out from the location, the delivery folks became more and more skeptical that …
I am often amazed at how shallow my knowledge can be if I haven’t taken the time to play. I can get the concept that a given tool or idea is useful, but until I actually put it to use, there is very little that I understand about how it …