Bruce Springsteen might consider dying now, just so that he can roll over in his grave. As for me: I find myself strangely compelled to avoid Microsoft applications as much as I possibly can.

Lending credence to my theory that Bill Gates will own all of us in the not-too-distant future, Microsoft yesterday put in an unsolicited $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo.

I'm enough of a conservative to be as suspicious and skeptical of big business as I am of big government. What might that future look like? Maybe a little bit like the past:

Off topic, but a semi-funny video by Bill Gates about his last day at Microsoft. He asks Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton if he might be their running mate for President, and even puts in an "inconvenient call" to Al Gore.