Steve Jobs

My tribute to Steve Jobs is simply to add my voice to all those coming in from around the world hailing him as the genius wizard of computing.
This web site would not be possible without his direct control of the evolution of desktop computing and graphics which he took us through over the past two decades.
But all has not been smooth during these years of the Mac’s evolution. I have owned several machines which had numerous problems; computers are, after all, computers. During my first mid life crisis I trained to be a Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE), but returned to my beloved MAC for all my personal computing.
The great men of history are’nt the inventors of new objects they are the builders of new ideas.
The legacy of Steven Paul Jobs’ is one of tapping into peoples’ souls about what personal computing should be.
Delivering that desire in easy to use software placed on artfully designed devices. We will likely never see his sort again.
Apple’s website home page (above) says it best. Just our patron saint looking into our souls and assuring us that all will be well; he’s “been to the mountain top.”

Occupy!…then what?

SO, NOW THAT WE’VE “OCCUPIED,” WHAT‘S NEXT? What are the demands and how far will people go in suffering for these goals?
So far the protestors’ goals seems to be choosing who the official protest musician will be, the next Bob Dylan and the proximity of the occupied area to the local Starbucks.
Now in its 4th week this movement has spawned sister gatherings all around the country and is even popping up overseas. Lots and lots of people Occupying Wall Street in Kansas and Japan.
Is this an Arab Spring style event? If so, the goal there was not to “raise awareness” of the bad guys’ misdeeds, but was/is to throw them out of power, if not kill them outright. And don’t forget, the Arab Spring’s peaceful protests turned ugly and thousands have died so far. What‘s going to happen when (not, if) they turn violent here?
There are thousands of perpetraitors of stock market and corporate fraud; individuals responsible for it are hard to pin point, let alone punish. This is not like a dictator in his compound.
Some are in joyful anticipation of violent clashes, but they had better count the cost before taking on this country’s armed forces and police department SWAT teams. Class warfare will be inevitable, disastrous and apocryphal.
Michael Moore (film maker who brought us “Fahrenheit 911”) summed it up best: “The rich are out of control, kleptomaniacs and sociopaths. I think there is some sort of sociopathic illness and they now want us to live in a kleptocracy. Where the kleptomaniacs run the show.” You think Gadhafi is bad. Hang on to you helmets folks.