Being around

The Lemonheads – “Being Around”

We are well into November.  2009 is fading and thoughts of what might be in 2010 are spinning up. Soon we’ll be peppered with magazines and entertainment shows doing their best of 2009 lists.

I hope we have all collected new experiences this year.

Entrepreneur’s life

Found this opinion piece interesting and wanted to make note of it.  Written by Jay Goltz, who runs five small businesses in Chicago.

An Entrepreneurial Life

Steve Jobs: CEO of the Decade?

Fortune Magazine has dubbed Steve Jobs the CEO of the Decade.

He certainly is awe-inspiring.

Soviet War Paintings

I’ve always been interested in World War 2.  “The Greatest Generation”

I found these Soviet War Paintings fascinating.  We don’t hear as much about the Russian front, aside from Stalingrad.

Hands-on

2 notes about hands-on people.

First, a heartwarming one about a 101 year old father with a special needs daughter.  Courtesy of the Guardian.

The 2nd – photos of Bill Gates.  It was his birthday on October 28.

Windows 7 – now available

Without a doubt it’s the best version of Windows.

Learn more about Windows 7

I’ve been using it since the beta without a hitch.

Jump lists, window & tab previews, easy window manipulation, stability, and security.

Also cool if you pair it with the new Wireless Comfort Desktop 5000.  First set of hardware with features specific to Windows 7.

White hair haiku

I found a white hair
A sign of age, or hard times?
It is what it is

Generation A

Can’t wait for November 10!

One of my favorite authors, Douglas Coupland, has a new book coming out.  Generation A.

Description from Amazon:

“Generation A is set in the near future in a world where bees are extinct, until five unconnected people from around the world — in the United States, Canada, France, New Zealand, and Sri Lanka — are all stung. Their shared experience unites them in ways they never could have imagined.

Generation A mirrors Coupland’s debut novel, 1991’s Generation X. It explores new ways of storytelling in a digital world. Like much of Coupland’swriting, it occupies the perplexing hinterland between optimism about the future and everyday apocalyptic paranoia. Imaginative, inventive, and fantastically entertaining, Generation A is his most ambitious work to date.”

October

I dream of travel. Somewhere else, somewhere new. More places to see. A great wide open world of adventure.

Here I am feeling restless. It’s October, my birthday month. Age 33 looms like a gargoyle.

Pack up a bag, put on a hat, stride out into the great beyond.

Cheers

“Wouldn’t you like to get away
Sometimes you want to go
Where everybody knows your name
And they’re always glad you came…”

Now I want a beer and a chat.