My Top 5 Movies

March 31st, 2010

Everyone has their top 5 movies. Roger Ebert, AFI and any number of local writers will list theirs. Often times they recite the usual suspects: Casablanca, The Godfather, 12 Angry Men, etc. I would like to veer away from that. These are the Top 5 that I love to watch. They make me feel good, [...]

Learning Virtues

March 30th, 2010

Benjamin Franklin was one of our country founding fathers. He was also one of America’s greatest men. He was the man who discovered electricity and is credited with many of the famous sayings we use today. In order to have all of the achievements he had in his lifetime, Franklin had to start early.
In his [...]

If you haven’t heard by now, Kevin Smith was removed from a Southwest Airlines flight for violating their “persons of size” policy. What ensued can only be referred to as the Twitter version of the Dresden bombing campaign from Smith toward the airline.
Smith, with over 1.6 million followers on Twitter, quickly reached a large audience, [...]

The laws regarding intellectual property in the United States have become outdated and overly restrictive. Technology has made it necessary to revisit these regulations so created work can be more thoroughly enjoyed.
Let’s take movies, for example. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act prevents us from circumventing DRM for any reason. This means we’re legally unable to [...]

These days with the economy still reeling of a total and complete lack of consumer confidence, employment is still teetering on the edge of the abyss.  With all our jobs at stake, it is always a good idea to keep abreast of career information.  The best strategy is to dig your well before you need [...]