This morning, after Zen’s business, breakfast, and start of her first nap … and my checking email, reading blogs, and deciding how to survive the heat … I head a familiar bird. I had not seen it around since last fall. I quickly ran outside to see if indeed it was back. Sure enough it […]

I’ve wondered what all the excitement has been about Twitter. It’s not new by internet standards and yet I had not used it. So, I gave it a whirl. I ended that joyride last night. I posted a tweet saying ” no thanks”. Here are my thoughts and experience.

Twitter has a very […]

I wrote about using Lotus Notes “basic” as a way to conserve resources when you are not taking advantage of the extra features the Eclipse framework (aka Lotus Expeditor) provides. Well, I recently needed to switch over the full Notes “standard”. I got a shock when I lost my nice, tuned, custom frameset (seen […]

We are better at rationalizing what we do than being rational about what we’re doing.
- Linda Stone.

This quote was in an article written about cellphones being everywhere. I don’t mean they are ubiquitous but rather, people feel compelled to always have their cell phone with them. There are lots of […]

This little creature is perhaps eight inches long. It has lots and lots of relatives around the rental property. It is also the bane of Zen’s existence. They are fast - at least fast enough to dodge and weave and scurry into the shrubbery quick enough to elude Zen. When they are not sure […]