Past Thoughts

Years ago I used to write a lot. A lot of the stories were Sci-Fi or Fantasy. Spaceships and sword and sorcery. Being a pack-rat I dislike deleting things in general. So when I begun going through a lot of my old or archived files I began to find a lot of those old stories and even a few poems. Now the “Poem” I will be putting here I have not looked at in close to 10 years. I remember it coming about on a night I did some soul searching and was confused by the thoughts that it brought to the forfront of my mind. Without further ado here is the “Poem” or better yet “Stream of Conscience” slightly modified (Spelling corrections…Grammar) from it’s original is “The Tides of Time”

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The Tides Of Time

The tides of time shift against me
I am no longer the man I once was.
And I no longer feel I am the man I should be.
Do the tides of time shift me in a new direction?
Or am I cursed to stand still in an ocean of chaotic emotion.
All that shifted around me and with me has changed.
It all seems so different now.

If there is a god will he or she have mercy on my soul?
Why do I feel like the alienated one? The one who will always be taken away…
Is there a reason for this change I see all around me?
Or is it I that changes why all others have stood still.
Am I the tide?
Am I the chaos?
Am I the one who makes it all different?

Do the titans and myths of yesteryear throw off my faith?
Did I ever have any?
If so too whom?

Or is it just that the tides of time have just swept me aside.
Or just swept me to a different path…

All that was once black and white has turned too shades of grey.
Which shades are the right ones?

A knight of the old code is I.
Or was I?
Or am I to be?
Or am I still?

All shades no clear color.
No clear truth.
No reason to live.
Or is there?
So many questions,
So many answers…
Which is right?
Which is wrong?

Who is friend?
Who is foe?
How am I to know?

The tides of time shift me.
I am afraid.
But I will show no fear.

No matter the amount of questions.
No matter the amount of answers
No one will ever see the likes of me again.

These questions expect no answers. Nor do the answers expect questions. It is for reasons all my own that I write this. I expect no being to wonder why it may be just the way life works.
Here is a question you may answer. Take time to consider it. Do not answer it brashly. You may just surprise yourself later in life. It is an answer you should keep with you at all times and let no one else know it, whether they be friend, foe, or lover, for it will affect your life profoundly if you do.

Do you stand still in the tides of time? Do you flow with them? Or do you believe that it has all just pushed you aside?

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Remember to keep your answers secert…keep them safe…

Until Next time…

Joe Rettzo

Verizon and Apple

Apple and Verizon have reportedly been in talks to develop an IPhone lite and a possible Tablet PC. This opens up the future to a whole host of ideas for both Apple and Verizon. Let us take a look at the scenarios for both of these so far mythological devices.

The IPhone lite:
While not the actual name of the product the two companies want to release something similar to the IPhone on Verizon’s network. I do not see many takers onto this platform as people would want the full functionality of the IPhone. Not a less expensive knock off. However if it does even a small percentage of what the IPhone does regularly than t could open the doors to a multi-platform IPhone in the not to distant future. An IPhone on Verizon’s network with Microsoft ActiveSync installed will start giving RIM’s Blackberry the biggest legitimate threat to their dominance of the corporate smart phone industry.

The Verizon/Apple Tablet PC:
This is by far the most interesting of the two devices. If this is an actual product and not just smoke and mirrors than Verizon and Apple are advancing themselves beyond the Smart Phone and beyond the other Tablet PC’s. This product if released, promises to be the future of portable computing. With the ability to browse the web and make phone calls over your home or professional wireless network it is on the fast track to changing how we go about our daily lives.
A lot of cities and towns across the country are putting in free wireless access. With this tablet you would be able to make phone calls across that connection. Also I could see Verizon giving a customer the option of adding a 3G sim card to the device which would add wireless connectivity to anywhere there is a Verizon network available. With a product like this for watching HD Video, browsing the web and even reading books and magazines it would give Verizon customers unparalleled experience that not even the kindle could match.

Now in the end result I am not a MAC fanatic. My Experience in the IT Profession makes me look a all OS’s in an equal manner. But I cannot ever take away from Apple their innovation and ability to raise the bar in the mobile computing and smart phone industry.

- Joe Rettzo

NJ Gubernatorial Contest

There is an article on CNN.com about current NJ Governor Jon Corzine fighting to hold onto his position in the upcoming election Here. Governor Corzine has been a failure as the Governor of NJ. As it stands I am currently training my the person who will be replacing me in my job as my company is moving all of its corporate functions out of NJ and into TX. NJ for too long has been too unfriendly to small and medium size businesses. Just in the small area of NJ that I commute through there are offices complexes, manufacturing warehouses, and retail outlets empty. And that is just in Mercer County alone. We are bleeding white at the moment. NJ needs to find a way to bring back the small and medium size businesses. It needs to give incentives to get people to start home businesses. Small mom and pop stores. A lot of the old Italian Restaurants in Trenton have closed in recent years, and a lot of other businesses have moved out of the state.
We also have a lot of double dippers working for the company. By double dippers I mean people who are retired on a government pension and are working for the same government. Now some of those people may have been the right choice for the job but there have to be limitations on how much a person receiving a government pension can be payed when taking another job from the government. The tax payers are the ones losing out.
NJ is a beautiful state with a lot going for it. It is the crossroads of the Revolutionary War, the shore line is only 2 hours away from any point in the state. Philly and New York are a train ride away. The Poconos for skiing are only two hours away. We have theme parks, aquariums, nature trails, Victorian bread and breakfasts. A board walk on the shoreline that stretches for two miles. During the fall months when the leaves are changing color there is an area of NJ called high point where you can overlook the Hills of NJ. Which are actually mountains eroded by the ravages of time.
The NJ government has been hurting it’s citizens for too long. Things have to change. The change will probably begin with the removal of Jon Corzine as Governor. Whether or not his eventual replacement does any good will remain to be seen. Especially considering that our last 3 governors have been completely ineffectual.

Thems my thoughts on the matter…

Microsoft, Rim, and Palm

There has been a small bit of talk in the IT industry lately of Microsoft possibly buying Research in Motion (RIM), The makers of the ever popular Blackberry, to help bolster it’s Windows Mobile platform.
Now I am not an industry leader, nor am I an insider of any kind. But I would be extremely surprised if this does happen. Microsoft is a software company. The only hardware you will see MS selling is keyboards, mice, speakers just to name a tiny few. None of these items carry any sort of OS. If Microsoft were to entertain the idea of purchasing RIM it would start the company down a completely different path than it has gone down before. There is a reason that there is no Microsoft PC’s. There is Dell, HP, and Lenovo to name a few.
Microsoft makes it’s money selling software for the PC’s to use. I see them continuing this trend in the smart phone market as well.
What may happen though is Microsoft and RIM working on a deal for the Blackberry OS to finally have Microsoft Active Sync as an add on feature. This would take the most used corporate phone and keep it at the forefront of the market. If that does not happen and the new windows mobile OS, that is currently in the works, comes out then blackberry may find it’s lead in the office world losing ground.
For those that have never used a Windows Phone one of the great things about the phone is it’s integration with Microsoft Exchange Server. Any of the fields that you regularly use in outlook, (Calendar, Contacts), are pushed out to the phone without ever having it sync to your PC. It is a great time saver, and in the corporate market time is money.
What I would like to see happen is RIM entertaining the idea of possibly purchasing Palm. There last several phones have been lackluster and the new PRE looks no different. If RIM were to buy Palm that would give them a new phone type to run the Windows Mobile OS under the Blackberry banner while still keeping the original Blackberry around with possibly Active Sync added into the mix.

Hello Web

Hello web. How are you. Welcome to the first post in what I hope to be a long line of random thoughts and ideas. Ideas flash to me quicker than ever these days and jotting them down has become harder. I now have half or even quater filled notebooks lying everywhere. As I get to learn this site I will begin to customize the site more to my liking.

till next time…..