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The inestimable Aaron Masih makes like the smarty pants (we all need and love), and offers-up a terrific solution for the confounding battery drain that the, otherwise cutting-edge, Apple iPhones experience with Exchange Server (some how it’s all Microsoft’s fault, eh).
You can read about, learn, and experience naught less than unrepentant joy over it here: iPhone 3GS Email and Battery Drain Solution.
Nonetheless, in a later post, Aaron lets on that’s he’s gone completely over to the business-side, and now leverages a Blackberry Tour to wage commerce for God, Family and Country (I injected the inspirational elements for dramatic effect, really). Perhaps to understand more, and possibly less, why this might be, you may reconsider one of my own earlier and relevant posts: blackberry IS all business.
Peace be to my Brothers and Sisters.
Brian Patrick Cork
This would be a follow up to that barn-burner of a post: texting and driving to death.
I did, in fact get some push back. There was, certainly indignation. However, thanks to you, and driven by passion – certainly an inspired call-to-action, it’s literally circling the globe at naught less than a frantic paste.
Thank you, and every single one of you readers, for that. But, more so, for what happens next.
More people text and talk while driving than drink and drive.
It has to STOP now. But, it STARTS with other, less technically-oriented communication.
This challenge really represents an opportunity to inspire change in how we are communicating with one another – beginning with parents and their children. If we are leading by example in terms of not texting and chatting on cell phones while driving, we win by saving lives – perhaps that of our own blood (and, it will certainly keep me from being rolled over a hood, yet again).
Look for a video clip in the next week or so where I tell you a story about my time as a volunteer fireman in Louisville, Colorado, and also, a day I happened across the scene of a horrific traffic accident at a four-way stop – and, the final moments of a child’s very life.
It’s grim work, to be sure. However, I am committed to it.
Peace be to m Brothers and Sisters.
Brian Patrick Cork
I waited a day for the dust to settle before I added my thoughts around Senator Edward Kennedy for the sake of posterity.
My favorite quote of his, ever gracious, and offered on the eve of his defeat during his first run for office of the president 1980 /1 remains:
“For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die.”
For five decades, virtually every major piece of legislation to advance the civil rights, health and economic well being of the American people bore Senator Kennedy’s name, and resulted from his efforts. Perhaps from, only the legislative viewpoint, the blemish might come from his record around immigration. However, from a perspective of balanced effort, we must needs salute the man and thank him, most heartily, for his public services to this country.
His Biography (he wanted it referred to as his memoirs), which will be titled: “True Compass”, will be a must read for the next century.
Peace be to my Brothers and Sisters.
Brian Patrick Cork
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1/ The 1980 Democratic Convention in New York City.
I was corresponding with Andrew Tilghman this morning. He had been reading Undaunted Courage (which must needs be followed up with Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West), and I found myself offering the following:
Keep exploring [Thomas] Jefferson. His mind allowed the outline of our Constitution to inspire the genius of his fellows.
I think this current thinking, on my part, was inspired primarily around Jefferson’s timeless sense of judicial balance measured against his keen sense of curiosity (why), and secondarily, through my mounting concerns that Barack Obama’s leadership and situational awareness might prove flimsy, at best. Obama seems lacking in a list of fundamental qualities consistently demonstrated by leaders. And, he genuinely appears clueless in terms of how things work (but then, of course, he went from being an events coordinator to a raconteur Senator prior to becoming president of the United States).
It’s likely a matter of “home training” (a notion one of my nannies, and of course, my Mom, instilled in me), I believe. He seems less interested in why things should work under best-business-practices, and more focused on them being done his way.
Dr. Pappas would likely have muttered “sophomoric” under his breath.
That runs full in the face of federalist theory, democratic ideals and objectivism - or, the theory, formation and, possibly the best result of the Constitution, assuming you care about such matters.
I do.
I also believe that, once he stopped spinning in his grave, Thomas Jefferson might scold Barack Obama, in public, for putting his own personal agenda before that of the American people, and Ayn Rand would rub-out her cigarette on his blackberry.
As an aside, we have some genuine anguish in-and-amongst the House and Senate regarding Healthcare reform. I sense that both sides have come to the bleak conclusion that Obama is more like a chimpanzee with a shotgun – as opposed to a rally-worthy leader. It does not even matter if “Obamacare” has any semblance of merit. This is not about “We The People” so much as the new Obama/ Pelosi/ Reid rat pack driving a $2.6 trillion debt down our collective throats that will drive this country into bankruptcy to the tune of Frank Sinatra’s “I Did It My Way”. If he says he wants something, it’s almost as if everyone decides to move to the other side of the room. This is already very different than the Obama-bandwagon of just two hundred fugue-drenched days ago.
If that isn’t how it works today, it certainly will by the end of Obama’s first term.
So… what does Obama do? He takes off for Martha’s Vineyard (he is such a poseur). This guy really believes he can play with the Kennedy’s.
Brian Visaggio once referred to me as a “Randian” – almost as if he were somehow scandalized by the notion. However, that is something I would value providing I distance myself from the associated socialist undertones. Joe Lieberman (“I” for Independent – but caucuses with the Democratic party) – Conn., says that I am a “Federalist”. That is fine by me because I am not convinced he used a dictionary before he said it (for the record, it means I would be a supporter of the Constitution under it’s earliest foundation). I don’t want to be an Obama-basher. I sincerely don’t want to be an Obamacrat. I am, absolutely, a patriot with Jeffersonian ideals.
So… I understand Obama might be in that part of the country (on Martha’s Vineyard) for a photo-op with Senator Edward “Teddy” Kennedy (D) – Mass. And, Senator Kennedy has been a long-time fighter for broad healthcare reform. But, the irony is that aligning yourself with Obama may be considered political suicide. Or, in Kennedy’s case, a legacy killer (and considering Chappaquiddick, this is saying a lot).
Peace be to my Brothers and Sisters.
Brian Patrick Cork
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