It's About Time (Pt. 1)

Sorry, I really should post more often.  It's not that I don't have time (though I am usually pretty busy).  And it's not that I don't have anything to write about (my head is always teeming with ideas).  It's just that I feel like everything I could write would be too boring, so I end up not writing anything.

Last week I had a couple ideas but then I didn't post them.  So I'll give the brief versions here.

First, I was going to rave about the wonders of google docs.  Anyone remember the days of group papers that consisted of a bunch of "back-seat writers" and only one person doing the actual typing?  It was almost easier to just do papers on your own.  Well, now if you have a group assignment, everyone just brings their laptops and logs on to google docs, and you all modify the same document at the same time, with the changes appearing on everyone's screen simultaneously.  Then, if anyone later wants to make changes, they just log on from wherever they are and type.  Try it next time - it makes for really fast and efficient group work.

I was also going to rant about the credit crisis.  Debt is supposed to be used for investment - like starting a business or financing a modest car that will get you to work.  You borrow money as a means of procuring a financial gain that would not otherwise be attainable.  In my view, debt is meant to provide opportunities.  It is supposed to be a good thing.  And so I say to that person unloading a new plasma TV out of the back of his Escalade and into his $300,000 home (all paid for with the swipe of a credit card), I've got news for you - none of those things are going to pay for themselves.  If you can't afford them now, what makes you think you'll be able to afford them plus the exuberant amounts of interest charged later?  I think our country has given debt a bad name.

See, wasn't that boring?  But now that that's off my mind I can do a real post.