An eBusiness Tribute To St. Patty

It's that time of year again, the time of year it's perfectly acceptable to do a bit of drinking in honor of the saint that drove the snakes out of Ireland, in honor of luck or lack thereof, in honor of the Emerald Isle most of us have only seen in pictures but have vowed to travel to one day whether we have relatives there or not.

Whatever your reason for buying into the generally-accepted mythos, cheers! May you cross the gates of Heaven before the Devil knows you're dead.

I have a theory that the Irish invented sarcasm, that the subtle little jokes helped to make a harsh life more bearable. It never rains in Ireland, they say, as they stand in a puddle and brush off their shoulders. That same sense is afforded to the famous luck, which, if you look at history for the past 1,000 years, seems relatively nonexistent in Erin. It's the spirit, then, that we love and embrace, not the gloomy, rainy realities helping to bring that spirit forward and make it that much greener for the grander contrast.

First, a moment of Zen from a Reuters and other outlets like the John Mayer/licensing Flash Lite for use on future Windows Mobile phones. All that iPhone attention has no doubt made Microsoft a bit, well, green.

The rain falling in Ireland reaches China, too, as Tibet erupts into riots. China, always sensitive to the oppressed and/or marginalized, did what any country that close to Myanmar would do. They Ice Age and not St. Patrick who ran out the snakes, or that Leprechauns and Faeries may have been real, but not magical,