Give him Legos , on of the top most educative toys. same goes for mecanos or other sets of building games . stay away from construction toys that make you build the exact same thing over and over again, with legos you can build tousands of stuff with a single generic bucket. and now there is INDIANA JONES themed lego OMG , i must have it

Today's titles are a stupid form of pedantism, I'm the IT guy in my company and although I do pretty much everithing from coding to support lame users, I do not care about the title, used to work in other companies with 'softare achitects' that didnt have a clue of anything but m$ stuff, Database operators and designers who dindt have a clue about anything a DB is. You are what you are, and I do prefer to be underestimated than exposed asa fraud. Man I dont mind being calld an employee rather than a colaborator, a computer company is not a partner, neither is your communications company they are your supliers . It makes me mad to ear about 'a company mission isto give their clients the best ... ' BULLSHIT a company is there to mke money ! if the client doesnt make money they'll dump it Jorge

So what !? My mother 70 yo now used to learn french cursive, German cursive and the standard Portuguese cursive. I only learned the Portuguese kind, and it useless now. I do believe that learning cursive is good to give the kids agility in their hand and control over fine movement but of litle less use than that. Today whe I have to hand write i use a mix of style, mut its easy to read by any one ! Jorge

You were lucky

When I was young , me and my brothers had to code sharing the palm pilot, crammed in a showbox, and still had to pay £15 just to keep the rats from bitting us in the toes.

Luxuries

When you do a deal, one part gives you some stuff and you give some stuff to them, When the MCPs did the 3 year deal with M$ they got some advantages they would not get if they made a different deal, right ? When you make a contract you should read the whole thing and think about it, not just sign it because everyone does, it was this kind of behavior that gave M$ its absolute supremacy , if MCP just have said 'No , I wont sign this contract because it sucks' in the first place, then they woulndt be in this situation

Jorge