Last night, I watched the movie Invictus – what a great inspirational movie.  This morning I woke up wondering about the poem that Mandela shared with Francois Pienaar in the movie. It was difficult to hear some of the words of the poem, as they were recited over much background noise.  Did it exist or [...]

Normally, I don’t use a politician in the “think about it” category, mostly because one never knows what to expect the reaction will be.  However, there were some things President Obama said last night at the Together We Thrive memorial in Arizona that I think bear thinking about – not as a Democrat or a [...]

The New York Times today has an article about the Google release of a new book database. The digital storehouse, which comprises words and short phrases as well as a year-by-year count of how often they appear, represents the first time a data set of this magnitude and searching tools are at the disposal of [...]

I am in the process of reading King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard.  So far, I’m enjoying it immensely (I’m at 31% completion).  As so often happens when I’m reading I find a passage I want to share.  This little segment of “Think about it“ takes place when the Zulu, Umbopa is giving warning [...]

There’s an interesting article in this month’s Fortune Magazine titled “The Future of Reading.”  At times it seems more of an advertisement for Apple’s IPad, however, I think its possible the IPad is used as the newest piece of technology that is supposed to be better than anything else as of yet (because its Apple?).  [...]

Today’s Word for Thought comes from The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.  I really liked this quote when I read the book a few months ago and when I came across it again today, it was a nice little reminder that we should try to remember what it was that we always dreamed of doing and [...]