Posts by Scott Barstow

“To be honest,” the president said “I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who have been honored by...

Last Saturday night in Raleigh, my wife and I had the good fortune of taking in the U2 concert at Carter-Finley Stadium. This was my third time seeing them, the...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about using incentives to drive down the cost of health care, rather than laying on onerous new taxes on sugar, fat, and other harmful...

If you follow me on Twitter, you know that yesterday I recommended buying Lars Brownworth’s new book, Lost To The West. You also ( hopefully ) have read my first...

There was a really good article in the NY Times last week about the effects of diet on American’s general health and well-being, and consequently, health care costs. For anyone...

I work for a large software company, and the things that go on here on a daily basis take me through a large range of emotions, most of them unpleasant....

One of the my largest pet peeves has to do with software product demos and the lack of attention paid to information I provide ahead of time. I cannot tell...

I was cruising the channels late Saturday afternoon and stumbled across the airing of the movie ‘When The Levees Broke - A Requiem in Four Parts’, a docudrama directed by...

I am not a car guy. I never really have been. I like driving really nice cars, but don’t like paying for them. As a result, I drive a 1995...

Recently the pastor of my church here in Raleigh received a request to assist the people in Pakistan whose homes were torched and burned and whose were people badly injured...

I have been a staunch Macbook Pro and Apple product supporter for the last three or four years, recommending them to everyone I know, and spreading the gospel according to...

I have been paying a bit of attention to the efforts of the current administration to make the government more open and transparent. Particularly, today I spent a good bit...

I was at one of my favorite restaurants yesterday here in Raleigh, the Edwards Mill Grill. I went to the bathroom and saw the picture below as an advertisement displayed...

I recently went thru the process of refinancing my house. My original mortgage was with BoA. I initially contacted my original loan officer and asked if there was an opportunity...

I am against seat belt laws, bike helmet laws and other similar types of things that impede on personal freedom. To be clear, I think all of the aforementioned items...

I have been messing around with Bing the last few days, and for some reason tonight I decided to search on myself, just to see what would come up. The...

I am playing on tennis ladder at the local city park here in Raleigh. It’s my first time playing on a ladder, though I have played tennis on and off...

There is an interesting article in the latest edition of Wired magazine about the titanic battle that is being waged between Google and Facebook for the attention of you, the...