It is the day after Thanksgiving and Imperative is open with a skeleton crew. These are the kinds of days I relish because the phones are silent and I can get caught up on some long-delayed projects. But first, I thought I'd take a moment of personal privilege.

A couple weeks ago, my eldest son, Jacob, and his partner, Grayson, won the Fort Worth ISD's history fair competition in the third-grade group category.

They researched Amelia Earhart and did a fine job. I'm proud of them both for the hard work they put into the project... that they won the competition just makes it sweeter.

Good job, guys!

Good Morning Silicon Valley, one of my favorite blogs, included the following quote from Apple's CEO Steve Jobs in an article yesterday.

On the possibility of Apple competing on the cheaper end of the computer markets: "There are some customers which we chose not to serve. We don't know how to make a $500 computer that's not a piece of junk, and our DNA will not let us ship that. But we can continue to deliver greater and greater value to those customers that we choose to serve. And there's a lot of them."

Even though I use a Dell laptop and don't own a black turtleneck, maybe great minds sometimes think alike?