We're now almost a decade into the 21st century and perhaps it is time to think again about lofty ideals and real life practicalities. I know that as a naive 18 year-old just graduating from high school, I and my contemporaries believed that the world was an orderly sort of place where the followers of systemic rules would be duly rewarded and ( Read more... )

Several weeks (months?) ago, I deleted my Facebook and Twitter accounts, along with MySpace and BlogSpot, retaining only my LiveJournal account. The reason I did this was because I thought all these social networks were getting a tad out of hand, and I was never all that social anyway. However, I attended the 8th Annual Government Customer ( Read more... )