Ground Speed Check

Its Monday, you’re having trouble concentrating and that’s OK. I’m here to help.

Here is a story that I found last week that I decided to save for the blogosphere just for this week. It goes back to the good old days of the SR-71 BlackBird. You know, our kick ass spy plane that started seeing action 40 years ago. This is a story of a training flight. There are many other amazing stories about this plane, but every once in a while you like to know that for all the training, training and more training that our men and women in the armed forces do, they still like to have a little bit of fun.

AppStore – Happy Birthday!

Wow, the app store is only one. Seems like it should be older with 50,000 apps in the store. Impressive work Apple!

Apple has put together a special link to celebrate some of the top apps of the past year.

Speaking of iPhone Apps… stay tuned for an announcement in the next week concerning a side project that I have been working on. We have some big plans in the works.

5 of 20

The big boss and I were watching VH1’s Top 20 Countdown this morning and noticed something rather interesting. 5 of the 20 videos were by American Idol Alumni. Whether you are a fan of Idol or not, you have to admit it has been a rather impressive phenomenon.

The convenience of the internet

I recently ordered tickets online for a Broadway show that’s coming into town this fall. I was expecting the price to be fairly pricey seeing as this is a pretty hot show and its the first time that it is coming to our town.

There are some fees that I don’t really care about. Restoration Fees to keep the facility looking nice and operating well is fine by me. However, $4.75 for the convenience of ordering via the internet?!?! PER TICKET!!!! Are you freaking kidding me! If anything, it should be EASIER for me to order via online. Sure I get that there are costs for hosting, bandwidth and software. But c’mon, that has to be cheaper than additional phone lines, personnel, benefits, overtime, etc.