I don’t know if I’m a minimalist. Many people call a refreshingly empty desktop (in both their physical and virtual forms) minimalist, or even Zen. I don’t know much about those things. But I really appreciate the openness of empty spaces. I don’t know if they open my mind to be creative. Or if I’m obsessive and just can’t stand clutter.

Yesterday Apple hosted a special event at the Guggenheim Museum in New York to announce a product that would change education. They announced iBooks 2, featuring interactive textbook support for iPad. At the end of the presentation, Apple announced an exciting expansion of their iTunes U offering. For me, though, the biggest surprise was the release of a free Mac application for creating textbooks called iBooks Author.

This coming Thursday Apple will be announcing… something. Rumor has it that we will see a product alluded to in Steve Jobs’ biography. Something that will disrupt the aging, often thought of as corrupt, textbook industry.

I’m toying around with Octopress for the next version of this site. I haven’t been bitten by the self-publishing bug or anything. And I’m not looking to build an audience. At the very least this will be a journal of the memorable things I come across. Just a place to drop my thoughts as life flies by.