You know, I've been so busy that I simply haven't had time to think about my life. So I'm now taking a few minutes to do so now.

I gotta say, life is good. Complicated... but deals are happening, the energy of the world is resurging, love and pollen and change are in the air.

Professionally, the recession is lifting, and the possibility of growth and profit are once again alive and kicking like a newborn baby screaming to my absolute attention. My primary line of business is in corporate transformation, and things look pretty good. For example, I wrote the cover article for the forthcoming issue of a significant technology magazine, about this vision I have for the NEXT Internet, which I call the MetaNet. The editor loved it, but I have no idea how it'll go over with the hundreds of CEO's who are about to read it. But with a little luck, I'll be flying all over the world again, trying to talk a consortium of multinational corporations into making a billion bucks with me.

Also, I recently accepted a position as the Executive Producer for The Cameraphone Summit, the premier conference for the emerging cameraphone movement. The conference will be held on Maui in late April this year, and companies like Nokia and Hewlett Packard are sponsoring the event. Inside of this conference is the seed of a non-profit art project, called OneWorld/OneDay, where we'll attempt to get 1 million people to upload a photo of something or someone they love on Valentines Day 2005.

In terms of creative endeavors, I've accumulated some decent photographic equipment (camera, lighting kit, chroma key backdrops - stuff like that)... and have started doing a little art photography on the side. And later this month, I'm going to splurge on an expensive semi-professional "movie" camera, called a 24p film look camcorder, and will start shooting indy documentaries and stuff this year for fun.

This camera, the Panasonic DVX100, was used as the principal camera for the film November, that just won the best cinematography award at Sundance. Amazing, this kind of camera cost over $50,000 a few years ago, and can now be had for under $3000.

Also, I'm now finishing my book of poems, titled Dharma Baby, and am submitting it to various publishers.