You know I consider myself to be an undercover tech nerd. Well I guess not so undercover as I have now stated this on my website and I have a website with my name on it. The good news is I think I am the only one that reads this site so I may well still be safe.

That said, I wondered today when the last time I even cared to sign into my twitter account. I mean I have so many access points to the social media site. I can enter through a widget on google. It is installed as an add on in my browser. I have it on my iPhone. But I literally have not signed on in seemingly months.

Plain and simple: I LOVE CHEESE. So when my wife told me there was a cheese tasting (I prefer to call it a cheese rave) happening on the south side this past weekend, I immediately put it on my calendar and ensured that nothing would derail visiting the GREAT AMERICAN CHEESE COLLECTION.

For my EMBA class "The Weave", our professor assigned for reading a John Templeton Foundation Conversation called "Does The Free Market Corrode Moral Character?" We were then tasked with choosing which author's position was most aligned with ours. After reading them all, I most agreed with John Gray. Gray is right when he says, "An economic system is good to the extent that it harnesses human imperfections in the service of human welfare." I would also add that we ought not look to free markets or central planning to correct the failings of man.

I am off to Atlanta shortly for the Urban Land Institute's Spring Council Forum. This should be an interesting session as we are almost a year into the beginning of the noticeable signs of the recession. The impact has been huge on the real estate interests that serve on a variety of the councils. It will be interesting to see who has survived. I know many of our friends will not be joining us this year.