For today's blog entry, I thought I would relate an interesting experience we had in Europe to the business of creating software. In 2004 my wife Yoly, our daughter Brittany, and I all spent 6 months in Europe. You might remember that in 2004, security was very high due to the attacks on 9/11. Keep that in mind as you read this story. On June 5th, 2004 we were staying on a family farm in the Black Forest, in Western Germany. We were pretty close to the border of France.