Having just returned from FoxForward 2007, I can say that the recovery process may never be over. I saw more things that I want to implement than I have time to implement, but I’m making a solemn promise to try get them all done. FoxForward 2007 for me was simply one of the best experiences and I highly recommend the …
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Windows XP vs. Vista
Recently at the Microsoft Financial Analyst Day at the Microsoft Redmond Campus in Redmond WA, CEO Steve Ballmer stated that by the end of 2008, Microsoft would have over 1 billion installed users of Windows. Ballmer said that this would mean that there would be more computers using Windows than automobiles in the world.
Read More »Father’s Day Show 2007 – WMOX
In June, 2007, I was a guest co-host on The Morning Show on WMOX in Meridian, MS. Below you’ll find the links to play each of the segments we did. Fathers Day 2007 – Hour 01 Fathers Day 2007 – Hour 02 Fathers Day 2007 – Hour 03
Read More »BOLO Means “Bad Boy”
Have you ever been BOLO’d? Neither had I until last Saturday, and I have to say that it is doing wonders for my image. I’ve always been sort of squeakly, clean, geeky kinda guy. But now I have formally joined the ranks of the “Bad Boys!”
Read More »Godspeed, Sonny.
In 1982, I met a man who would remain in my life for twenty-four years. I am proud to say that he was my friend, my congressman, and my Optimist Brother for over half of those years. Today, I watched his funeral on television and in my own way grieved that he is gone, and celebrated that I had the …
Read More »It’s Cold Up Here
As I sit in my father-in-law’s den looking out of the window covered with thick plastic wrap used to lock out the cold, I can barely make out the blurry shapes of trees and the iced over driveway. What is unmistakable are the blobs of white covering everything and they look the same from behind the plastic as they do …
Read More »101 Things To Do For Yourself
On a service call to a client’s office, I was waiting for their computer to finish scanning for spyware when I began to look around the room and notice a few things. My wife is pretty accurate when she says that she could rearrange the furniture in our house and I wouldn’t notice for three months. Of course, that is …
Read More »Katrina: The Making & Breaking of News
My wife and I have seen enough news reports about the devastation in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana to reach a conclusion: we have a story to tell and now it the time to tell it. I’ve spent the better part of a week now dealing with the effects (however slight compared to others who are far worse off than my family) …
Read More »Grog, The Fat Caveman
A gazillion years ago, a lonely single cell decided to divide and create a friend and though the process was primitive and untried, the cell heaved and pulled and pushed and in a moment of spontaneous creation split into two cells one slightly larger than the other one. The smaller cell looked at his former self and said, “Geez, that …
Read More »Mowing For Peace
Mowing grass has become my preferred way to relax. Some people think that mowing grass is a boring, tiring and sweat-laden chore, but I have come to see that mowing grass can be a great way to connect to life in a number of ways.
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