We live in a disposable age and our mindset has kept pace. It seems to me that nobody plays for keeps anymore. This is much deeper than opting for plastic and paper diapers over cloth, and using paper towels instead of napkins. Even big-ticket items appear to be acquired with the intention of “trading up”…
Some time ago I posted about getting ready to start learning Python. In fact, it was several months ago. August, to be exact. Since then I have made exactly zero progress on it. I STILL don’t know exactly why. But something interesting has happened: I started getting intentional. I also posted recently about the podcasts I listen to. One…
“Mr. Martin Tanner of Dayton, Ohio made his Town Hall debut last night. He came well prepared, but unfortunately his presentation was not up to contemporary professional standards. His voice lacks the range of tonal color necessary to make it consistently interesting. Full-time consideration of another endeavor might be in order.” Harry Chapin told the…
Two weeks ago I told you several things that you need to know about passwords. Today I’ll give you step by step instructions on how to make a strong, secure password that will meet requirements and that you will eventually remember. Trust me, you CAN remember them. The sentence method: Open up a program on…
Yes, I know that Farmville is a silly little game. I like it. (There, I said it. ) Like any pastime, it’s easy to get sucked into spending way too much time at it. I enjoy spending a few minutes at a time on it. Lately, it has taken soooooo long to load that it’s…
We have allowed the press to define this debate, to the point where it is no longer a debate with an honest exchange of respected ideas, but a contentious verbal battle with no progress. Many who pompously title themselves “pro-life” are actually “anti-abortion.” My pro-choice friends have made some very good points on that. The…
I have flip-flopped, or evolved, or changed, or grown regarding my opinion on the Death Penalty. Any of those terms is appropriate for what has occurred, and it is appropriate that this happens to people, whether they are computer technicians, or preachers, or company executives, or governors, or presidents. The only evidence of life is…
For several years I have been trying to talk myself into doing something I really, really want to do: learn to write computer programs. I have always wanted to write computer programs. For my Millennial friends, this will take some imagination: I went to school in a time when the office equipment consisted of an…
If you have a business, you DID build that. Here’s why. Oh, and while I’m at it, I’ll also explain why you have something that you DID build even if you “work for someone else.” Two words. Excellence. Integrity. Nobody GIVES those things. Nobody can take them away. And not everybody has them. Teachers are…
Finland has declared that broadband internet access is a basic fundamental human right, and the United Nations concurs (http://www.forbes.com/sites/randalllane/2011/11/15/the-united-nations-says-broadband-is-basic-human-right/). [Of course, that the head of one of the unions representing a group who would benefit from a huge government contract to fulfill a “basic, human right” –well, that’s a subject for another post.] One of…