Posts by Scott Barstow

Michael Jackson is dead, according to TMZ Farrah Fawcett is dead. A legendary prep high school coach was shot dead by a former player. Mark Sanford continues to be the...

Last night our home lost power in the middle of the night due to some pretty nasty rain storms. What happened in the next 5 minutes after the power dropped...

I have been working on creating a home sound environment without investing in Sonos, mainly because it just seemed overpriced. Over the last couple weeks I have built what is...

There are times when I realize that some of the people responsible for raising the next generation of children have serious issues. I happened across an episode of Real Sports...

Seth Godin gave this presentation at TED. I saw it on a good friend’s blog and found it worthy of sharing. Enjoy

For those of you that are fans of Coldplay, I got a tweet from them this morning about offering their new live recording for free on their site. Here is...

Back in March, a bunch of us computer dorks were at a conference in Las Vegas. One of the guys from our office had given us a USB thumbdrive to...

Tomorrow marks the return to the Yankees lineup of Alex Rodriguez. I remember talking to a fellow Yankees fan a few years ago when they signed A-Rod. I said at...

About 2 years ago, I was in New York at my niece’s graduation and happened to be in Sam’s Warehouse club with my parents. I wandered by a bin full...

About a year ago I had lunch with Henry Kaestner of Bandwidth.com about micro finance in developing countries. As a part of that lunch, I shared with Henry my ideas...

I ran across this article on ESPN today about a house subcommittee that is now involved in the BCS and the never-ending debate about BCS vs. playoffs. I came up...

We have the beginnings of a pandemic with this swine flu thing. Joe Biden got on the air this morning and said he would advise his family to stay home,...

Two article headlines in my iGoogle news ticker today caught my attention, not because of their content, but because of what seemed to be a direct contradiction by the current...

I was trolling the news sites tonight and happened upon this article from Reuters wherein the animal rights folks are upset because the Obamas decided to get their new pooch,...

I went to hear a lecture tonight on the campus of NC State given by Dr. William Easterly. Dr. Easterly is renown for his stance, overly simplified by me, that...

If I heard this phrase once in the last 3 days, I heard it 100 times. Everyone from Mariah Carey to people on the mall before the Inauguration kept saying...

I attended a meeting a couple weeks ago where Tom Davis spoke. Tom is one of the founders of Childrens HopeChest, an organization that is dedicated to helping the growing...

Not just a famous musical composition by G.F. Handel, these two countries have been linked together since the early days of civilization. Egypt in recent days has tried to inject...