Now the line is: Forget the classics, concentrate on an education for the 21st century! Which apparently means knowing how to operate electronic devices and figure out a spreadsheet. That’s not education, it’s vocational training. What once were means seem to have become ends in education. And our more with-it “educators” shift with every passing wind, clutching at the latest gimmick the way drowning men do at straws.

It would be wonderful if all the salmon we eat could be wild. But as one marine ecologist said to me recently, to continue to eat large wild fish at the rate we’ve been eating them we would need “four or five” oceans to support the crrent human population.

The cultural disintegration at Oracle is pretty substantial. They haven't even been able to integrate PeopleSoft yet.

It's not that on-demand software can't integrate. It's just that the integration tools in traditional on-premise software are better. The more complex the integration requirements, the better off you'll be with onsite software.

You might hear a song you like on 'Desperate Housewives' and automatically download it, watch the video, send it to your handheld device and burn it to a CD. All those things are possible in the fairly near future.

On-demand CRM may be a less-expensive risk, but it's just as big a risk. If you haven't planned everything out, customers will get lost. People will get fired. You will fail.

These days I can't read The New York Times' strong opinions without shaking my head sadly. Then I turn to its editorials.

Humans seem to have an innate drive to master other creatures.

The smartphone is a gateway to endless work. Workers should have the right to close the gate. (Goodbye Phone)

When reeling a fish in to not simply feel “the power of wildness intimately but the same time recognize the right of that wildness to continue”.