Technology continues to intrigue me.

I make no living in the field but it certainly help me in terms of efficiency, access to the information I keep and need, getting my thoughts out there, advocating for my clients and pushing back quickly when the need arises to challenge policies, programs, and proposals.

I also find it useful to promote my involvements, including Gotham's upcoming Battle of the Bands, April 17 at the legendary Cafe Wha? co-owned by Gotham member William Skody.

In a number of chats this past week both in person and via email, I shared my ability to code much of my own website and my preference to build it more or less from scratch as opposed to using templates (that the many great web designers in Gotham prefer).

I just enjoy it the same as I enjoy writing, messaging and strategizing.

Throughout this past week, I devoted more time than expected pondering the great question of the day.

Not whether the President should nominate a successor to Justice Scalia (I have shared my views elsewhere including on Gotham's Politics listserve which folks might enjoy, especially if they enjoy cable new programming.), but whether Apple must unlock the government phone used by San Bernandino terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook.

Raj Goel posted two interviews (FOX and WPIX) he gave this week arguing against Apple unlocking the device.

My technologically gifted son who taught his dad almost all the coding I know and wrote many programs throughout his undergraduate and graduate career that help him analyze data (and he uses some of the programs in his role as a Senior Research Scientist at a major public health research institute) also weighed in; Jonathan shares Raj's view but questions why a government that broke Nazi and Japanese codes in the Second World War (and probably many we know nothing about) seeks to press Apple on this task.

I know the implications for public safety; I also know the implications for freedom, and not just here in America but in repressive places such as China and Putin's Russia.

Do you have any view?

Please share your thoughts in the comments.

And special thank you to Don Bernstein for sharing his space today.