Yeah, So I decided to take the plunge and move to bum-heck Egypt to follow my job. Since I’m about as bored as it gets right now, I figure this is the perfect time to start updating the site. Since I’m getting back to basics, you might as well humor me and read on, dear patron. With great boredom comes awesome wit and questionable opinions, I’d hate for you to miss out on that.

I don’t think I ever fully understood the meaning of life until just a few minutes ago when it dawned on me that I’ve been living it all wrong. Maybe that’s the luxury of youth, indulging every whim while ducking and weaving the things that are truly important. I fancy myself a fairly smart guy I’ve got all the basis covered: education (check), technical expertise (double check), intellect (big check with a smiley face sticker), but probably one of the smartest things I’ve ever done was to take this little sabbatical from my life that I’ve been using as an excuse to act like a thirteen year old kid on summer vacation.

What was my big epiphany? Well let me see if I can explain it in a way that makes me sound like less of an idiot for not realizing this a decade ago:

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I was watching Cranky Geeks earlier, and they were talking about why Microsoft want's to get in to the MP3 Player market it seems pretty obvious to me, but apparently the pundits don't see it the way I do. It's ashame, too because it's more fun to hate Microsoft than to blame their monopolist ways on 'company beurocracy'.

Microsoft corporate has it in their heads that if they don't own everything, then they'll be kicked out the race because people will find better replacements for everything Microsoft has. Where did Microsoft get these paranoid thoughts? Well, I don't know, but it could very well be from reality. Microsoft gets something that most in the tech journalism community doesn't that they're practically incompetent. Sure, Mac fanboys and, in some cases Windows Fanboys, see it too but they're the vocal minority that Digg Poster's call trolls. Just a cursory look at the software landscape will make Microsoft's fear a justified one Microsoft's behind in the game, they know it, and they're trying like hell to hide it from you.

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