by Frank McPherson, author of How To Do Everything With Windows Mobile

 
Many weeks ago (is it almost a month ago?) the blogosphere was saddened by the news of Marc Orchant's unexpected heart attack and ultimate passing. I am sure that I am like many people that while we did not know Marc personally, we feel like we got to know him a little bit through his blogs and the OnTheRun with Tablet PCs podcast. I have to admit that the combination of Marc's age and the unexpected nature of his death affected me personally, probably because I listened to the podcast and when you learn someone's voice I think you grow closer to that person.

As it happened, Marc and James had been having problems producing OTR with Tablet PCs and had decided to retire the show. Unfortunately, Marc did not have the opportunity to say goodbye to his listeners. James has put together a final issue, which is a montage from the 40 episodes of OTR. I've held off listening to the episode and had put it to the back of my mind until I saw this post from James on the reaction to the episode, and so I am listening to it right now.

Now, clearly neither Marc nor James' knew what was ahead and there is no deep message within the episode, but I think that you can just tell from the tone of Marc's voice that he enjoyed life and enjoyed what he was doing. As I look at myself on this final day of 2007 I know that I have become more negative. The reasons for my negativity are probably varied from simply getting older and disenchanted with my job after more than 18 years, to the death of my grandmother more than a year ago. I know I need to find a way to reenergize and simply find a more positive outlook, and that is my resolution for 2008. For some reason, I think that listening to this episode is a good start.

Labels: 2007

posted by Frank at 12:54 PM

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