Off the ground. I’m in mid-flight to MIX 2010 and I’m thinking about a marquee sign next to a small hardware shop building on the side of the highway about 20 minutes from my home.

“WE HAVE GALVANIZED BOLTS”

This is actually an exciting change. For the last three years the same marquee has read:

“WE HAVE METRIC”

How is this news? There’s not much going on in the hardware and fasteners business these days, I guess.

How awesome is it to be working in an industry where change is a constant. With web applications the worst kind of stagnation we have to complain about is the gulfs of time between Internet Explorer major version releases. (MS… haven’t you already learned that incremental minor releases trump the codebase-jarring major releases?)

I may complain about many things in the software industry, but a sign like this grounds me. The world of cutting edge web technologies is never boring. Innovation is everywhere. We create our own tomorrow.

Brothers. Sisters. You may hear me bitch about a lot of things. But please understand that there are very few things I’d rather be doing for a living. Until someone starts paying me for playing with my kids or taking my wife out to a show I will be right here with a big smile on my face… happier than a kid making mud pies.