I prefer iGoogle as my desktop. To help my brother play with his web camera, I signed on to Yahoo!. That’s when the beatings started.
When I powered up my laptop, Yahoo would take its sweet time loading up. Then I’d get a pop-up asking if I wanted to change my desktop to Yahoo!. I’d say no each [...]
Each year, my small group of Veterans meets at the VFW to plan a Memorial Day parade. Still each year, we plow through the same details so all will be seamless on the big day. We always get it done with about 20 such meetings mixed with a lot of work.
What strikes me is we’re just one committee [...]
In the window of a local craft store is a decorative plate with a message that stopped me cold this week.
“Life is not about waiting out the storm. It’s about dancing in the rain.”
I get a couple of warm fuzzies from this thought.
1. Don’t wait around for things to get better. Dance, sing, write, nap or do [...]
One of the best men I know is a clearinghouse for sometimes interesting emails. He sent me one recently exposing a shared pain folks without college backgrounds feel. It’s a brand of secondclassness. We are pigeonholed as either underachievers or worse untalented. We spend our careers with our hands tied behind our backs by our own doing.
One email [...]
There’s only so much areas to do writing’s job #1: get the message out. Even without restrictions, I allow for the reader’s attention span.
After those bliss-filled moments of free writing, the writer turns editor and gets the grunt work done. Here are my few rules for editing. They are not in order.
Answer the question “who did what?” [...]
At Christmas, my wife and daughter gifted me with an iPod iTouch. Sweet!!! Do they know me?
Most of the fun in technical gifts is found in the learning stages. “Oh, check out these many neat applications. Wow, it can do that?” You know these moments.
However, the unit had a glitch. Simply, it didn’t shuffle tunes or follow the [...]
In the 60s & 70s, the buzzword was ecology. Industrial giants had their way for so long their abuses were truly scarring our earth. Factories used passing rivers as dumping grounds. Vehicles belched toxic gases and even the humble spray can packed a deadly punch. We had reached a time when we recognized how fragile our species [...]