MISSED INFORMATION & ASSORTED MISSIVES: YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG EDITION   PART 1: INNOVATION Former industrial giant turned least bankrupt North American automaker Ford stopped short of revealing a car that runs independent of fossil fuels today, to bring you news of their brand-new “self-parking technology.”  According to this article, this is to become something of a standard option for a majority of their cars in the latter half of 2009.  Yes, self-parking and all manner of self-parking related “computer ...More »

BLOGGER, PLEASE Since I don’t post frequently enough to have any readers, I may as well explain the reference.  Bill Maher has a segment on Real Time (well, at least he did during the writer’s strike) of the same title.  I thought it might be a good segue into observing the rather awkward fact that I’ve effectively become my own guest blogger.  Of course, it is also a run on a certain phrase, but that’s the ...More »

MY POINT OF DEPARTURE I thought I’d frame my inaugural post with a little homage to Bill Lawrence’s superb sitcom Scrubs.  If you haven’t seen the show, for which your life is surely impoverished, the greater plot is focused through a reflective first-person narrative that has the title of almost every episode featuring some variation on the word “my” as prefix. I think it lends rather nicely toward my purpose here, aside from being a curious pattern ...More »