Living in the end times...

Disasters abound across the globe.  It's Friday, and that simple sentence is a viral hit on YouTube by some girl named after a Biblical character and the absence of light.  My mother-in-law, whom I greatly respect and love, is now the proud owner of an iPad 2, yet she doesn't know how to use her cell phone.  My son said it, quoting R.E.M., "It's the end of the world as we know it; and I feel fine."

OK, it's easy to think that the end is near.  Must have felt that way in the Middle Ages, in the midst of the Black Death, with citywide conflagrations in several places in Western Europe, or when the Conquistadors arrived in Central America.  For all our accomplishments, we have managed to hasten the pace of destruction; be it conflict or contagion, disaster or dereliction of duty to man, vice or virus; we cannot defeat death.  In fact, we seem to be hastening to embrace it's cold hands.

2012, a popular myth if the end of time, or is it prophetic.  Or, is mankind simply working to fulfill a prophecy...

The new iPad 2 is announced today

What?  Seriously?  I was still hoping to get the original, and they go and launch a new one.  Now I have to scrap all my plans, machinations, ploys and schemes and start over.  What; their not available yet, and ship March 11th?  And Motorola has the Android "Honeycomb"-based XOOM.

The decisions one must make...


... or not.  I liked the first, but wasn't ready to plunk down the bucks to get in the game.

And it is likely another new version hits shelves before year's end.  Maybe then, it'll be time to get in the game.  I'll just have to suffer with my laptops, my Android 2.2 phone, and iPod Classic a little longer.  That should suffice.  Unless, of course, Oracle Clinical RDC could be made to run on iOS or Android.  To me, that would be a real game changer.  Larry, you listening?