Ideas from Mark Stout

Do you ever wonder if anyone will know your name after your last grandchild dies?   How many names do we know from a five hundred years ago?  From a thousand? Is there anyone who lived in our time whose name will be known in five hundred or a thousand years? I think the only one I can say with certainty who will be still known is Neil Armstrong, who died today at 82 years old. It won't be because he was the first on the moon, but the first human to stand on any body other than Earth.   Certainly he did not do it alone.  It took the efforts of tens of thousands engineers, builders, and other astronauts, plus the political will and taxes of a nation.   Hopefully, Armstrong's achievement will seem quaint in the light of explorations that will occur in the next thousand years.  But just as every intercontinental airline passenger owes a debt to Magellan, who did not even survive the voyage he is acclaimed for, Armstron...

Evernote has made two announcements so far at their big developer's conference going on now. I summarize them and link to them over on the Get Productive Fast blog .

The last two of my annual back to school columns have posted. Software students needed was the topic on August 12th . And keeping your student's technology safe, and planning for inevitable failure was on the 19th.

Every year at this time I do one or more columns on technology for new college students.  This week's is on the hardware needs.  Our tablets yet ready to replace the laptop? This week's Family Tech . Remember, all Family Tech columns are  listed on their own page  

For those following me on Twitter, I have changed my handle from the long MarkAndrewStout to the shorter @MarkAStout .  Now I have five more spaces for text when I am tweeting something I hope will be retweeted.