Stop the Stream to Honor Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs is dead.The news makes my life pass before me. I stare at the screen where Facebook users continue their posts about Farmville rewards and I want to yell Stop! Stop all the game posts; Stop all the Tweets! Stop everything for one second and recognize the...

Shout Out To My Heros: Help Boards

Today, I’d like to do a shout out to the unsung heros, help boards. Most of the time, these over-worked administrators and moderators only hear the rants and ravings of an unhappy poster. But, you can bet if you’ve got a problem that you need solved,...

I means what I means

If you could hear me when I’m using Google Search lately, you might think I was doing a Popeye impression; I mumble a lot. Ever since Google changed its search algorithm in March, I’m having to reteach myself to surf. I go to Google and type something, say...

Cheating is the symptom of educational woes

I’m saddened by the news today that five children paid someone to take the SATs for them and as a result they could face serious time.“Colleges look for the best and brightest students, yet these six defendants tried to cheat the system and may have kept honest...

Mind Over Mouse?

To catch a mouse diaryDay one: Received the Riddex Sonic Pest Repeller and plugged them in. These were on sale real cheap at Amazon so I thought I’d give it a try before doing something more drastic. It was only a tiny field mouse after all. My family thought I...

Are you in a browser rut?

Since this website is about surfing the internet, I thought I’d talk about the tools of the trade today. I’m surprised at the many people who still use Internet Explorer. Are you one of them? I have a number of customers who were, but I’ve released...

All apologies to Irvine

I’m a pretty positive person and normally don’t post rants against anyone, so I apologize in advance for this one, but I just have to get this off my chest.I was watching CNN during lunch and they announced that Irvine, California has been named, again, as...

Are we getting nastier?

I recently set up a blog for a customer and was encouraging him to integrate it with social media accounts such as Twitter and Facebook. He wasn’t in favor of the idea because, he said, Twitter had become so “nasty.” The tweets he’d seen lately...