I’ve been busy at work, with kids and teaching so I haven’t had much time to post, but I have kept up with the online and online journalism world. My new favorite way of staying up to date is all of the great tweeps I am following on twitter. You [...]

I keep switching computers around at work and at home– just jumping from one computer to another to try something different out- and I have come up with a list of tools that I always install first thing when I take a new windows computer to use.  I’ve done this [...]

This must be the day of lists. Newsweek has a great list of the Seven Lies We Tell Ourselves About Facebook. I’ve listed the Newsweek “lie” and my response to it. I only friend people I really know- I actually only friend people who I am willing to go out [...]

Some Sun engineers ran some tests to determine if yelling at your computer actually helped or hurt and discovered that yelling at your computer actually slows down the hard drive and slows down your computer. I guess that means that my infrequent outbursts actually slowed down my compute rmore. I [...]

Here’s a hilarious promo for the Austin American Statesman newspaper breaking news as they rip TV for being slow about breaking news.

I got a new Blackberry Bold and it is compatible with the qik live video streaming service so you can check out my latest live video on my qik page or follow me on twitter and check in live whenever you see the live streaming note. The video quality is [...]

I finished my ubuntu experiment today and went back and wiped my family computer and reinstalled Windows XP. It’s not that I didn’t have a good ubuntu experience, but it’s just my family kept wanting to install programs that only ran on Windows. I finally gave in when my daughter [...]

It’s a cliche, but it’s true for me– there and back again. I have bounced around between a couple of places and a couple of different types of jobs. Everyone once in a while I’ll throw a new place in the rotation and here I go again back to a [...]

Too many people waste their time straining to do things that aren’t right for them. Too many managers ask the wrong people to do the wrong job– the job that isn’t a good fit. Too many companies focus on doing business outside their core competency. How do you solve this [...]

Even though I am rarely posting on this blog now, I have switched it over to a WordPress blog. WordPress is a great blogging platform and is a great choice for a CMS for smaller sites. I’ve used it on several sites over the last couple of of years. I’m [...]