Birds, Bees, and MBPs
When a mommy and a daddy love each other very very much, like my wife and I, sometimes they have a life-changing event which starts with a very simple conversation, like, “Honey, do you think we should get a new MacBook Pro?”
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Your Career Path ... Probably Isn't
I have a good friend named Chris Cooper. (No, not the actor.) I worked for Chris for many years when he was Director of Developer Services at Novell; now, Chris is a partner with UV Partners, a venture capital firm in Salt Lake City.
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Why Do They Take School Pictures at School?
Against my better judgment I’m writing about education. Education is a topic where, if you disagree with the status quo, you are automatically labeled as anti-education, which is logically ridiculous.
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What Makes a Great Videogame
The game Forza Motorsport 2 took a step towards greatness tonight when it helped me answer that question you and I have both been wondering about our whole lives: What would it be like to drive a 700HP blown Aston Martin V12 Vanquish in a demolition derby?
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Knee Surgery Update
Faithful readers, if I have any, will recall how I blew out my knee upgrading my PC to Windows 7 about three months ago. You probably think I’m joking but I’m not really. I can promise you, the pain was definitely not a joke.
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