Beyond the Rhetoric

Nearly everyone I know has a smartphone of some kind. They might have an iPhone, a BlackBerry, an Android device… it doesn’t really matter. They’re all smartphones and they all can offer very similar functionality; they also all require a decent mobile data plan if you want to get the most out of what they [...]

“For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind’s greatest achievements have come about by talking, and [...]

Sucker Punch (2011) I went into this movie with a mixed set of expectations. On the one hand, I had a feeling that it was going to be a terrible waste of two hours. On the other hand, I thought Zack Snyder would evoke the same kind of visceral satisfaction as we got from the [...]

Last month, there was a Dilbert comic strip that I thought was particularly compelling. In it, evil CEO Catbert says that the company is no longer going to use the term “work-life balance.” This is because it implies that the “life” part is important. Instead, he says that the term will be replaced with “work-life [...]

Life is very much about the journey and not the destination, but you need to know which way you are heading. Sometimes, it really does pay to give some attention to the destination and that serves as the topic for this week’s speedlink. Let’s see what the blogosphere has to offer. We start out with [...]