As a coach and teacher I am asked several times a week, "How do I get from here to where I want to be?" My answer is always the same. First answer this, how did you get where you are now? Your thoughts, beliefs, feelings and actions got you exactly where you are and those will get you anywhere else you want to be.

Alice Walker writes in her collection We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For about keeping her mind empty and uncluttered with the ideas of others so that her own thoughts, her own words have space to grow. A nice concept, particularly for one given to meditation, yoga, and other woowoo pursuits. But that ain't how I roll.

The Howling tells the story of newswoman Karen White who is sent to a rehabilitation center known as The Colony after a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer. But the other inhabitants of this rehabilitation center may not be who they seem.

Finding intermittent bugs in a large code base is notoriously difficult. The Los Angeles Times is now running an Op-Ed article by David M. Cummings, which makes much the same point. Mr. Cummings worked for nine years as a consultant to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and worked on developing the software for the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft, and he has a total of more than three decades of experience in developing systems to be used in other complex devices: "As anyone with experience in embedded systems will tell you, there are nasty software bugs that can be extremely difficult to reproduce in a laboratory test environment."

According to a recent article in The New York Times, unmanned surveillance drones are currently collecting more video intelligence than analysts are able to handle. The volume of footage taken from last year's surveillance efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan nearly triple what it was only a few years ago–a grand total of roughly 24 years' worth of footage, if watched without break.

The Vampire's Assistant tells the story of Darren Shan, a normal teenage boy, who does everything that his parents tell him to do. However, Darren is about to become a vampire's assistant after visiting a freak show that has come to town.

More commonly known as Cinderella, Aschenputtel is much more than a fairy godmother and glass slippers. There was a rich man whose wife lay sick, and when she felt her end drawing near she told their daughter to be good and pious and that God would always take care of her. She promised to always be with her and that she would look down upon her from heaven. And then she closed her eyes and passed away.

We want to have incredibly sophisticated technological goodies, which incorporate thousands of components in very complex relationships, packaged so that we can use them without having to understand how they work. At this point, it seems safe to say that neither Toyota nor anyone else really knows what is behind all these reported problems. It would probably be a good thing, though, for everyone to keep in mind that there are hard problems that arise in the real world; and they cannot be made easy be declaring them so.

The second RNA segment of some influenza virus strains encodes a protein called PB1-F2 that might contribute to virulence. Speaking about the 2009 pandemic H1N1 strain, Peter Palese noted that "If this virulence marker is necessary for an influenza virus to become highly pathogenic in humans or in chickens, then the current swine virus doesn't have what it takes to become a major killer."

Margaret Somerville, a bioethicist at McGill University, is still pushing her Christian-based views as if they were science. Recently, she's taken on the emerging controversy about the rights that dolphins may deserve.

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