photo by flattop341 When your hard drive goes up in smoke you likely will end up losing some data, but you will also need to re-install all of those tools that you use to get stuff done.  The basics – Word, Excel, etc. are pretty straightforward, but if you’re like me, you’ve probably collected […]

photo by Bast  I’m going to date myself here, but my parents had an 8-track tape that I used to listen to when I was growing up – it was the soundtrack to Lost Horizon (a 1973 remake of a Frank Capra 1937 film).  I don’t really remember the movie being worthwhile, but I remember […]

There are some things that you take for granted, sequels are almost never as good as the original, Stephen Colbert is funny and when you hit the power button your computer is supposed to turn on, not give you the dreaded Blue Screen of Death…! Unfortunately the unthinkable happened to me and it’s been a […]

   photo by peasap  Leaky buckets aren’t very efficient (and it’s really hard to find a good leaky bucket picture…).  😉 One of my clients has long been having a proverbial ‘leaky bucket’ problem with their revenue and they’ve been unfortunately leaving a lot of it on the floor.  When times were good that revenue […]

  Photo by loomingy1  Happy belated 4th of July / Independence Day!  This is a holiday that always gets me to thinking about things – what a great country we have and about all of the people that have sacrificed themselves over the last 233 years so that we can enjoy the freedoms we enjoy […]

  photo by shoothead  One of the fun things about the internet are all of the unusual (and sometimes clever) names that companies have developed for their products.  Some are fairly obvious (like YouTube or LinkedIn), some just sound interesting (like Squidoo or Gumshoo).  Somewhere in the middle is Delicious (originally Del.icio.us) a Social Bookmarking […]