Magical Moments on iPad and Screen

Efforts to avoid the iPad failed me this week. Our son-in-law let me take a test drive on his.

Does the iPad Change Everything? Yes. But not because it's a bookreader with multimedia capabilites. Steve Jobs is right. Magically, the iPad does remove a barrier between you and the Internet. I discovered as much that evening, when I revved up my old iMac. How frustrating to maneuver with keys or a mouse once you've experienced the iPad.

If the iPad – and the G4 iPhone – don't make Steve Jobs' year, Pixar's Toy Story 3 surely will. Reviewers for both the NY Times and the WSJ loved it.

Wrote A. O. Scott in the Times: "… perhaps only Pixar, a company Utopian in its faith in technological progress, artisanal in its devotion to quality and nearly unbeatable in its marketing savvy, could have engineered a sweeping capitalist narrative of such grandeur and charm as the “Toy Story” features."

Wouldn't it be a wonderful world if that devotion to quality spread around Wall Street . . . and oil drillers?