A Perfect Pear
In the midst of all this doom and gloom being reported all over the place about the economy; I ran across a rather inspiring story.
What I learned from this story is that, even in the middle of drastic change and turmoil — perseverance and positive thinking; (coupled with wise risk management and proper research, of course); can produce wonderful results.
If you’re in business or trying to start a business.. or even thinking that being in business for yourself is something you’re interested in — do not allow the nay-sayers to thwart you from your dreams. Do not close a blind eye to the obvious challenges that are before us, at this time either. Yet, do not allow them to dictate negative reactions and/or thinking in you.
You too can have a Perfect Pear!
Eventually I came to appreciate that the people I met ate and drank
only what they grew — what they had. Their genius was taking whatever they could grow and making something wonderful out of it. Poor land that could only support goats led to chevre. Undrinkable ugni blanc wine led to cognac. Small, crummy apples in Normandy led to Calvados. And so on.
Eventually I learned that the Williams pear, which the French, Swiss and Germans made into the fantastic Williams pear schnapps, or eau de vie of poire williams, was the same as our Bartlett pear.
The Robots Are Coming! The Robots Are Coming!!
These little guys are just too freakin’ cute!
Bot-In-Time Delivery – Forbes.com.
The robots, or bots, are built by Kiva Systems, a six-year-old Boston company bent on a singular mission: replacing the labyrinth of conveyor belts and humans that most distributors rely on to pack items in the online mail-order business.
LOL… oh my..
When Everything Lives In The Browser – Forbes.com
Rarely do I use the article’s direct title when I reference them; but, I couldn’t think of a better way to express this; (besides, I’m feelin’ a little lazy).
I consider myself a programmer… yeah, I do.. pretty much. Yet, I don’t have much by way of “advice” to offer, here. I mean, its really all a matter of personal opinion, isn’t it?
Yeah, it might be kinda cool to have a whole lotta stuff workable right from the browser space. But, then that makes ME think about security issues. If everything is in the browser, then all they (they = hacker) gotta do is hack he ONE application; (the browser); right?
Kinda like having ONE password for everything.
When Everything Lives In The Browser – Forbes.com.
Competition is always good, but especially these days with browsers. Features are being added to them that may, in a year or two, make a browser-based application look and feel no different from a desktop one. Imagine having the equivalent of Photoshop or PowerPoint in your browser–and thus available on whatever machine you happen to be using, desktop or smart phone or laptop.
Personally, I feel safety in diversity. Call me old fashioned, but I’d rather a thief have to actually figure out where I keep different things rather than giving them a road map.
Wha’chu think?