Given that I had the opportunity to travel this Thanksgiving week to my friend’s place in Los Angeles, I had a lot of time to think (and a lot of time to regret the decision to drive with my 3 little boys on a holiday weekend, but that’s another post in another blog ).  Anyway, as a result I have the following short list of things I am thankful for in things tech related.

• Engineering geniuses that understand that they don’t know everything and can find bits of truth anywhere
• Engineering humility that allows cooperation with designer genius
• Palm, for leading the way in smart phones with their PDA series so long ago
• Apple’s iPhone, for forcing the mobile phone industry to go ’sexy’
• the Internet and it’s creators, for enabling world-wide connection, information sharing and collaboration
• Google, for enabling the search of and usage so much useful and relevant information
• Google watchdogs for reminding us that so much power can also be easily abused
• Facebook, for allowing me to connect with so many of my old friends
• Twitter, for introducing microblogging and the “Continuous Partial Attention” concept
• Microsoft marketing, for making computers look easy to end users and their developer tools group for enabling such sophisticated development
• Many other companies for creating technology that actually makes computing easy

In all seriousness, there are plenty of other things I am thankful for related to tech.  I am more thankful to my family and friends for putting up with my incessant use of “Greek” language that tends to put them to sleep