Dropbox, with its emphasis on good old-fashioned hierarchies, is superb at automatically saving one original of each photo I take, whether shot with a phone or a fancy camera. No loops, no duplicates, no confusion.

A good designer has technical knowledge - don't treat her like someone who's there to decide whether something should be pink or orange.

Rodney King is a progenitor of all these cell phone videos that we have. It was unusual that a person had a video camera to take a picture of the Rodney King beating. Now, of course, everybody has a phone, and that has been one of the key factors in all the new attention to the issue.

Life is like a camera. Focus on what's important. Capture the good times. And if things don't work out, just take another shot.

Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.

I would rather see some good old-fashioned mud than another 24 inches of asphalt.