Wow is it hot.  Hot.  Did some great cycling anyway, and enjoyed some peaceful poolside reading too.  I'm going to miss summer :) and I have only one day left.  I guess going back to work doesn't mean going back to working 24x7!

So did you watch President Obama?  Me, neither.  I knew what he was going to say - let's spend a bunch of federal money creating new jobs - and I knew the positioning - let's break the legislative logjam created by the Republicans.  It was a campaign speech.  I'm sure everyone declared Bingo in the first five minutes. 

What we actually need is a President and government which will get out of the way, so businesses can create new jobs for real.

So far the returns are not positive.

I didn't watch the Republican debate last night either, did you?  It might have been slightly more interesting, but (yawn) I couldn't bring myself to do it.  I think it's interesting that while there is debate about the winner - Perry vs Romney - there is no debate that the CNN moderators lost.  Click through, I love that clip of Newt giving 'em hell. 

This is cool: Lucasfilm unveils "sandcrawler" office. 

Things I think: 

• Email signatures should be contact information, not sayings. 

• Bailouts are bad.  Nothing is too big to fail.  Including the USPS by the way. 

• Trucks should not beep when they back up.  The solution is far worse than the problem. 

• Carol Bartz was the wrong CEO for Yahoo.  What's needed now is a visionary, someone to give the company purpose and direction.  Execution can come later. 

• Apple are amazing, now on track to ship more phones than Nokia.  Who would have thought? 

• Microsoft should make it so Windows Phone Apps run on Windows 8.  Great way to bootstrap. 

• Google's customers are advertisers, not users.  Not you and me. 

• Electronic medicine is most definitely the future. 

Stay cool my friends!