This week there will be no soap-boxing from me, just an interesting observation from Wednesday night.

Like many of you in the DC area, I was at Wednesday night's U2 concert. Well, Wednesday night's show produced another example of just how much technology has changed our society.

I'm sure most of you reading this remember going to concerts and holding up a cigarette lighter when the lights went out, filling the venue with thousands of twinkling yellow lights. Well, at one point in the show, Bono requested that everyone hold up their cell phones. It had the same effect as the lighters of old but, the small twinkling lights had an eerie blue quality about them.

The people I was with complied with the request. I, comedically respresentin' the old school, held up my lighter.

So, alas, the era of "flicking your bic" at concerts is over.

So, I bet you are wondering what this has to do with IP. Well, nothing. I just thought my one critic who reads my posts (hi!) might like a week off. :-)