Don Kasprzak

Conversations regarding Globalization, Internet2 and Education

May 8, 2012
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Will printed books remain relevant in the future?

Milwaukee radio station 620am WTMJ broadcast a segment regarding ebooks last week.  I finally got around to blogging about it today.  The segment was titled: “Will printed books remain relevant in the future?” Book/library aficionado/blogger Paul Everett Nelson joins WAN … Continue reading

April 30, 2012
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Koss Striva wifi headphones

Koss today has introduced new wifi headphones.  The announcement is just 5 hours old but looks pretty interesting.  In addition to plugging (sorry) into a Koss streaming service users can attach an small adapter to any iOS device.  Set your … Continue reading

April 28, 2012
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MDNA: sales vs. torrents

I simply burst out laughing reading the Detroit News‘ article regarding Madonna’s sharply falling record sales.  Her latest release MDNA debuted at #1 last week after selling 359,000 copies according to Nielsen SoundScan. Yet as the article indicated: Madonna set … Continue reading

April 25, 2012
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Opening The Vault On The Financial Crisis

Great Britain slipped into recession again this week. Its worth another view of how close we came to economic collapse: [youtube width="512" height="288"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVV6dzDOgQ0[/youtube] The HBO movie was good.  The book was so much better….and rather shocking.

April 22, 2012
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Watergate’s Chuck Colson

Chuck Colson died Saturday. I think he will be remember more for his post Watergate actions than the Un-American acts he managed in Nixon’s White House. Regrettably today’s short attention span media will focus on the last years of his … Continue reading

April 11, 2012
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Why I drive

Kinda forget over the last ten years the joy of driving this car. Thanks to a very funny cast for reminding me why BMW is the ultimate driving machine.  The laughs really begin at 4:15 mark. Best thing I ever … Continue reading

March 30, 2012
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Insanity of war

As I have been reading each volume of the Pentagon Papers it has become quite clear that the politics of war is true insanity.  The revelations in those volumes show our country stuck in the cold war. After 3,500-ish pages I … Continue reading