Decoupling hardware from software is a big key to success. Stop trying to sell me on the Kodak EasyShare software you bundle with your camera and I’ll be more likely to buy your camera. If Kodak EasyShare is the best way to manage my photos, I’ll find it and use it.

My family is almost done with our two-year AT&T contract and I’ve been trying to figure out what the best course of action will be when that happens. The problem is, there are way too many variables. Naturally, as a programmer, I decided I needed to lay out all of the variables, preferences, and the like in a standardized format and algorithmically rank our choices.

My father spends his weekdays in a high-rise in Chicago. My sister lives in Los Angeles. I’m in Bloomington, Illinois. We are all less than five minutes from the same historic road. It’s disappointing that it no longer officially exists.

Rather than grass or astroturf, what if a football field were made up of fiber-optics that were shaped like and felt similar to blades of grass?