Sun and Steel

These words are highly evocative and it is no surprise that the great Japanese writer Yukio Mishima used them as…

App Inventor for Android

Google’s decision to allow Android users to create their own apps is exciting! By allowing their users to create their…

Longer but not Better?

Living to 80 is not the feat that people think it is. As I’ve often said, people routinely lived active…

New Athleticism

There is a movement towards new and/or unique ways to compete, build strength and athleticism, and basically to separate oneself…

Apple and China

Today’s article in the New York Times about Apple’s strategy in China got me thinking about China’s allure to businesses…

Neanderthal Forearms

I’ve been looking at the Paleo lifestyle concept in the past few weeks and their assumptions appear reasonable (a lifestyle…

The Tudors

I’ve been watching this Showtime series via Netflix and, while it is not 100% historically-accurate, it is close enough to…

Teamwork

I’ve enjoyed the World Cup because of some amazing displays of teamwork. Whether it was the US’s victory that erased…