Once in a while I forget that we are in such a connected world that almost no one is much more than a few micro-seconds away anyone.
A few days ago I wrote a post on my Applepeels blog about a change in management at Apple which I had heard about through the grapevine. I did not think it was a huge deal.
Then I read another post which indicated things had changed a lot in the enterprise space at Apple where I worked.
I ended up writing another post, "Winfidels and Apple's punt on the enterprise."'
It was not long before I got a phone call from someone who writes for the Macintosh press. It was someone who used to work for me at Apple. We had a nice chat, and he asked me to dig up some additional information for him.
It was not long before his group published a "scoop" to use their words on what I had been talking about in my blog for about a week. My Applepeels blog is pretty well read, but I only write when I have something worthwhile to say. That means the numbers of posts I do has dropped a lot in the last year. Still I have not dropped off the earth.
Perhaps the feeling of contentment that rolls over me when I have a good day fishing had something to do with it, but for whatever reason, I did not really mind someone taking my information and creating a scoop in their own mind.
However, I was really pleased when a Canadian reader of my Applepeels blog sent me note saying that I had obviously written about the scoop well before the other folks.
It is nice to know this web of electronic communications can shrink the world so much that I have almost instantaneous communications with someone in Calgary, Alberta.
For some reason, I am very visually oriented so after the email I spent a few minutes rolling through the film of my mind and enjoying old images of Calgary and the rest of western Canada.
Running that through my mind is a major shift since life here on the coast of North Carolina is so oriented to the water like at the top of the post. That happens to be a picture of the docks at Beaufort, NC where we enjoy taking our visitors.
I like to keep my connections with Canada alive and healthy, but the warm water along North Carolina's coast probably has a very strong hold on me especially as the weather starts to turn cold.
The days when I enjoyed tackling a blizzard of three feet on our New Brunswick farm are long gone.
For a trip to a different world, have a look at these photos of the old seaport of Beaufort and check out this YouTube video of a sailboat docking there this past Tuesday.
Maybe some warm can be electronically transferred by reading about what is happening here along the sea. You can check in out in our new Electronic Village for Carteret County.
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