Interesting piece in the news this morning about mobile phone usage doubling since 2000. Ah, so many people saying nothing, at least that is the feeling I get when forced to listen to other people's conversations in buses, on the street corner, in the supermarket, etc. Is anything really important being said? I doubt it.

Well, here we go again. VHS vs. Beta is being relived with the DVD wars of Sony and Toshiba. Disney and apparently MGM are backing the Sony Blu-ray standard for high definition discs while Warner Bros., New Line Cinema, Paramount, and Universal are backing the HD-DVD standard developed by Toshiba. Both use the blue laser technology but in a different way. Sony was responsible for Beta in the seventies, a better product, but VHS won out when most people jumped on that bandwagon for whatever reason. Now, only one or two studios have announced intention of releasing movies in Sony's Blu-ray standard while at least four have announced their intention of utilizing Toshiba's HD-DVD standard. Won't these companies ever learn?

Then down in Rio de Janeiro we have evangelical Christian politicians pushing legislation to create "conversion therapy" for LGBT people. Won't those people ever learn? They claim they are not beng homophobic but are only "offering an escape" for those who desire it. Escape? Escape from what? Would or could these heterosexuals "escape" from their sexuality? Come on folks, we are all sexual beings, period, and cannot change that. We are what we are!