2011-10-05 is a special day for me personally, *before* I learned of Steve Job's death. I also spent the day in court. In fact I spent every workday of the last two weeks in court, as a juror. Life and death has been on my mind for two weeks. My own birthday is around this time, so I celebrated a birthday with 11 new found friends in a locked room, discussion the lives and death of other individuals is a sobering experience that not many people will have. One saving grace was the thought of next week, I will head down to the Apple store early in the morning, and line up to pick up a new iPhone 4S, as I did two years ago, at a whim, for my then new iPhone 3GS. I always thought Apple, because of Steve Jobs, was a great company building great products. I remember my old boss, when I was quitting my job to become a freelancer back in 1988, asked me who were my heros. I named Steve Jobs as one of them. I followed his career. I attended the NeXT computer launch in Boston's Symphony Hall. I guess that was the closest I got to Mr. Jobs. I debated to try to get an autograph from him on the NeXT poster that we received. In kept that poster for almost 20 years even without a signature. You could say that I was a fan, even though in the corporate world and the software world I was working with Microsoft products and PCs.

During my first start-up in 2000, I had his creativity and connection quote printed and pined up on my office wall. Most people think Apple is irrelevant. I purchased Apple stocks. That was my best investments ever made, probably never to be repeated in my lifetime.