Funny how life changes; many commonplace parts of our lives fade away and new items come along that are the current or popular “thing.” I remember laughing back in the mid-1990s when my oldest son, Patrick (who was all of five or six years old) heard someone refer to a “station wagon” and he looked at me and asked, “Dad, what’s a station wagon?”  As we hopped in our car, I told him I would point one out on the road … so we...

It just isn’t summer without my annual trek to the bookstore or a friend’s shelf to gather up this year’s “must reads.” Optimistic? Yes, but I can still recall the days when I actually read those all-consuming, mindless yet somehow satisfying beach books. But if Sony is right, I may have to give up this rite of summer for good. Instead, I will spend countless hours online reviewing and purchasing e-books. According to Steve Haber,...

So Apple’s iPad (stop with all of the juvenile jokes, please) is just the latest example of the aforementioned “controlled leak.” For the past several weeks, the rumors have been building that Apple was going to announce a tablet computer. I guess it goes without saying that the Apple junkies were scouring the Interweb for more details, but surprisingly, I found myself on the edge of my seat waiting for the big announcement, and...