I have yet to jump on the huge net book bandwagon. I have a beautiful Toshiba notebook that very adequate for my computing needs. It is larger than a net book to be sure, however, I have heard quite a few rumblings in the technical community about the limitations of the net books. Folks [...]

Information is good. Confusion is bad. Confusing information is disastrous. That’s why it’s so easy to get lost on the net without a cliff to fall off. Get it? A reverse parody. OK, lets move on. In my glory days at the computer help center, I would frequently have a line up of agents four [...]

Years ago, I took a course that was extremely valuable in completely stopping my migraine headaches. I entered the class with a brain splitting migraine in May of 1986, and at the end of that day, the headache was completely gone without the use of any medication. Here is the honest truth. I have not [...]

Lets see, I graduated technical college in 1997. Worked for a high tech company called SHL Systemhouse from that point on and saw some pretty interesting changes in the tech world. Our company won the contract to supply high speed broadband internet connection to the greater Vancouver BC area, and believe me, that was quite [...]

You know, you can read the books, watch the tutorials, peruse the latest articles on the newest latest and greatest software and hardware applications out there, but if you don’t give yourself permission to ‘play’, your just really dancing around the issue of learning ‘holistically’ We as humans learn on many different levels, but until [...]

When I initially started to play with wordpress, I was unimpressed. It felt foreign, clumsy, awkward and I shook my head back and forth more than a few times. Stepping away from something for awhile is a very good thing. It gives you time to reflect and look at things from a different angle. After [...]

We went to the Vancouver Home Interior and Design show and had such a great time. Our faith in human nature was restored when we were walking up the stairs to go into the show and a nice couple stopped us and asked if we were going into the show. We said that we were, [...]

This is a hot topic. On one side you will find the power companies stating that everything is fine, and that there is no way that the electricity that is flowing through high tension power lines and eventually ends up in your home can influence you on any level. Then, we have all of the [...]

Quite often when we communicate to others, we tend to present our ideas from our own particular point of reference and view. It’s no wonder that we can get mixed up, and in the process mix other people up as well. Let me relate to you an excellent exercise we adopted at the technical call [...]

This was a very ‘big deal’ for us techies in the computer business. The big bosses flew down from Toronto and had a meeting with us in December of 1999 and told us something that we chuckle about now, but we were asked to take very seriously back then. If I remember correctly, they fed [...]