One of my goals for blogging DFT was to try to keep a steady flow of posts - what better way to keep people coming back, and attracting new readers, right? The more readers, the more comments, dialog, and a real learning experience! That’s what I wanted. But I am an engineer, and I do help get chips out the door, and on a regular basis, that requires putting in a crapload of hours, losing sleep, and not having time for anything else. I just went through another one of those. I think I need to stack up some writing ahead of time - next time…
Anyway, I’m still not recovered enough to write about anything technical, so I thought I’d just rant a little… hmmm where to start? How about Al Gore as a choice for a keynoter at a technical conference? As engineers, we should be eschewing opportunities to listen to politicians trying to shove “moral imperitives” down our collective throats. Here’s a guy so devisive he needs to uninvite the press to avoid a scene (the linked article written by somebody who was clearly having palpitations about possibly having to reproach the Gore people about the exclusion). Actually I think Gore needs a 12-step program to realize we don’t necessarily have the power to control the earth’s climate.
Actually, I know we engineers go where the money is. And if the money goes to cleaner energy (because the demand is there), I’m behind it. Let’s make it happen. But I don’t need someone to bestow me with the “moral authority” (because the science isn’t compelling enough).
End of rant. I’m going back to my job of changing the world, one scan chain at a time…
