Why this class?

Everyday before bed time or in the morning, I hold up an iPhone fingering at Facebook updates that I don't care. Mobile devices have intrusively invaded my life, period. It's the pervasive smart mobile device trend that got me, because not very long ago I was using Sony Ericsson and thought it was cool. A trend is just a wave that everybody gets on, or you miss it. But I'd rather to get on a trend, and engineer it. That's why I am here :)

Patent war between big corporations was kind of... whatever to me, because I didn't understand it and couldn't imagine the dollars a winning company can get out of it.

But hey, it's intellectual property. I do software, specifically Web. I shouldn't be the one to be ignorant about it. Taking advantage of this (soon will be my) patent knowledge not only adds a new flavor of perspective but gives me IP consciousness when doing my work.

Also, this class is awesome by how I can express myself in different forms instead of answering questions on a sheet of paper. I'm already having fun.