Digital Clutter

Spent a good chunk of this weekend organizing my media collection. Having consolidated computers over the years for one reason or another left me by with about 5+GB (1300+) duplicates. Yeash!

I spent a fair amount of time looking for a good media organizing software, and while there are many out there to choose from, few really perform well in my opinion. A lot of them (much like iTunes) create a database..but when your trying to go into and actually clean up the tags and remove them from the hard drive they are not as obvious.

So I'm going to do a little product plug. I'm using Media Monkey, and so far I'm pretty happy with it. Hopefully all my work will pay off and it'll be easier to keep up with this time around.

Next up...Photos!!! yay

Mac Attack

Well I finally caved into the tyranny of Apple. But only because I want to try and make a buck off of it. Eagerly awaiting the arrival of my new Mac Mini. It's about the cheapest entry point (especially when you get a refurb.) to Apple, which is a pitiful thing.

Should be cool though. I'm hoping to try my hand at iPhone App development as well as understanding the OS. Which brings me to my question of the day....If a product is SOOoo simple....does that make the users of the products simpletons???

Budding Entreprenuers

Took out my copy of E-Myth revisited for a general pick-me-up of get the heck outta the cubical inspiration.

Thought I would share a nugget of knowledge. To paraphrase: A successful entrepreneur views the business as the product. Not the product as the business.

Immigration Reform Part 2

Watched the second part of the news bit, which cleared up some points.

First, the person in the report self-deported so that he would have a viable chance of actually getting imported(?), citizenship the right way.

Then the truth comes out...Our legal system is jacked up and he is looking at up to a year to get processed. There in lies the real problem in my humble opinion. I'm against people breaking the law...but you can't drag people along like this for that long.

Immigration Reform

So if any of you watch the news you have no doubt heard about the new law proposed in Arizona and the Federal lawsuit pending to place an injuction against them.

I'm going to try to keep my political opinions stymed, but as I was watch the liberal news media (aka "the news") this morning interviewing this kid, who came over as a 12 year old with his parent illegally. Graduated top honors in High School, attended Arizona State University with a Mechanical Engineering degree and has now recently gone back to Mexico to avoid being processed by the new law.

That's the background... The odd part..the news guy is talking about how this is a talented and obviously smart kid that the US should want to keep to which I had several knee jerk reactions.

First, how the hell does someone get that far in our education system without noticing? I kinda like the idea...get an college education...get a green card.

Second, how does a smart kid like this, with a professional degree, not attempt to get his green card. Maybe he has tried...

Third, while I know in the short-term it sucks, family seperated, etc.. Isn't this a good thing? A US educated, talented engineer returns to Mexico to make it a better place? Lot's of other countries send there students for US education and many go back. Why is this percieved as a bad thing?

Fan Mail

To protect the identity of the submittor I shall call him Lonnie.

Lonnie writes:

"if you want more people to follow your blog, you should blog more."

Thank you Lonnie. I should write more and follower interactions such as yours help to encourage my musings. So in that regards thank you.

You could also join my blog as a follower. The little button on the left. Then I would know that I have an audience eager to hear the latest gibberish I have to spew. As of current I think it's my wife and sibling. (Thanks guys for being my rock when I was just the little guy).

So..I shall leave Lonnie with an action item. Join my blog as a follower and I shall start posting more to my blog.