The rain can be a beautiful thing for some
As someone who spent a large portion of their youth in the Pacific Northwest, I love the rain. The freshness that the world carries after the air is cleaned and the plants are fed just brings a sense of peace. For anyone living in the
desert they know that rain can bring new life, sometimes not welcomed weeds, and flooding. We are experiencing the largest storm in decades blanketing the west coast as well as Arizona, and still for some, this is not the storm to be worried about.
Rain falling in my backyard
Storms are disruptive to our lives. Storms cause change.
Everyone needs to remember that even damage caused by a storm brings things of beauty, things needed. Plants grow and wounds heal.
Keep love in your heart and all will come as God promised.
My 2010 Predictions
While some of these seem tongue-in-cheek they are based on trends I've seen over the last several years. I first tweeted them and decided to drop them into a blog post so that commenting could accompany the actual items.
Watch the past disappear
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- Mobile (rolling) hotspot using inter-car connected wi-fi. One car subscribes then using bridging, all are connected.
- Flexible phone with at least a 5" multi-touch screen. Names such as "Roll-and-Go" or "Flexiform" will start to be sold.
- Twitter partners with ATM companies to allow updating twitter status for those without devices. Banking updates = fad.
- Highly viral application connects all social networks and is used by travel agents to notify friends when traveling.
- First self-aware garbage can tracks consumption and generates list for grocery store. Partnered with RFID companies.
- Worlds first "real" neighborhood becomes 100% Facebook connected, delivers community meeting with all in attendance.
- You will be hollered at by a live Ad (billboard), using your online moniker, while in an airport (Twitter enabled spam).
- First high school graduation live blogging by students draws more online attendance than at the event.
- Quad-core Netbook with 3 Gb of memory, 250 Gb SSD running Moblin/Win7 dual-boot for under $400.
- IE6 is still being ran on more desktops than Google Chrome.
Today I bring a friend into my blogosphere
Since my blogging software has the flexibility to create additional accounts, have authors and contributors, today I have added a friend (and old co-worker) into Cybertough Industries. Matt Fisher joins us as an expert in the area of Microsoft technologies with focus areas in image handling, web-landing and cloud computing. As he ramps up I look forward to his contributions. I've missed him ever since he was forced to leave my department and am very anxious to read what he contributes. As a fellow Christian, our work discussions often led to relevant faith-based comparisons with very insightful outcomes. Welcome buddy, I missed you.