Windows XP vs Vista vs Windows 7
May 11, 2010 01:01 PM Filed in: Computing
Dear Bruce: I have friends advising me to get Windows XP when I get a new PC. Is this possible and why? With Vista out of the way, I thought Windows 7 was now the way to go. --Perplexed in Chagrin
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Apple TV vs Roku
Apr 22, 2010 04:29 AM Filed in: Computing
For a couple years I’ve had an Apple TV connected to my television. Sounds strange, doesn’t it? A TV hooked to a TV. Actually, the Apple TV isn’t a TV. The Apple TV non-TV is one of the few products Apple makes for which the marketing approach is confused, to say the least. Read More...
Buzzards Ripped My Flesh
Mar 04, 2010 03:22 PM Filed in: Published Writing
BUZZARDS RIPPED MY FLESH
I heard the flapping first, then looked up. A couple stories above me, in the city, were vultures. They were resting on the building’s ledge and circling over the entrance. Big black nasty-looking buzzards, watching me as I walked into the building. I’m looking for work. They’re looking for food. I guess their quest is just more direct than mine. Read More...
I heard the flapping first, then looked up. A couple stories above me, in the city, were vultures. They were resting on the building’s ledge and circling over the entrance. Big black nasty-looking buzzards, watching me as I walked into the building. I’m looking for work. They’re looking for food. I guess their quest is just more direct than mine. Read More...
Climbing Fools
Mar 03, 2010 10:35 PM Filed in: Published Writing
Climbing Fools (Noburitte Baka)
Japanese wisdom has it that you're a fool if you've never climbed Mt. Fuji; also that you're twice the fool if you climb it more than once. By this definition, I'm no longer a fool, but I have no intention of re-attaining the status. Read More...
Japanese wisdom has it that you're a fool if you've never climbed Mt. Fuji; also that you're twice the fool if you climb it more than once. By this definition, I'm no longer a fool, but I have no intention of re-attaining the status. Read More...
Clean Water Project
Feb 23, 2010 08:31 PM Filed in: Community
You may have read elsewhere about Katie Spotz. She is currently two-thirds of the way across the Atlantic Ocean; she is ROWING from Senegal in Africa, to Cayenne in French Guiana. Read More...
One Hour To Live
Feb 22, 2010 10:46 AM Filed in: Published Writing
I might have just sixty minutes left alive.
Shortly after take-off our pilot announced that he believed we'd had a tire blowout in the nose wheel, where a flat can make landing a difficult experience. Read More...
Shortly after take-off our pilot announced that he believed we'd had a tire blowout in the nose wheel, where a flat can make landing a difficult experience. Read More...
Road Rage
Feb 22, 2010 10:33 AM Filed in: Published Writing
There I was in my suit, late for my flight to my job interview, and the big, bearded construction worker in the pickup truck In front of me was mad. I gather I had unknowingly cut him off somewhere along the way. Now there he was, eloquently expressing his feelings about my offense in his rearview mirror. Read More...
Zen and Your Computer
Feb 19, 2010 09:54 AM Filed in: Computing
Take a deep breath. Don’t panic. You own your computer; it doesn’t own you.
Seriously, a deep breath. Expand your belly to pull down your diaphragm to its deepest. Take the air in through your nose. Let the breath out slowly now, through your mouth. Read More...
Seriously, a deep breath. Expand your belly to pull down your diaphragm to its deepest. Take the air in through your nose. Let the breath out slowly now, through your mouth. Read More...
Email Viruses
Feb 17, 2010 09:24 PM Filed in: Computing
Mark Twain once said, “Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would rather have talked.”
Trouble is, in your lifetime it’s likely no one ever talked to you much about computer viruses. You didn’t grow up with this issue. Computer viruses are rampant, and calls to help rid clients’ computers of these little buggers have been increasing. Read More...
Trouble is, in your lifetime it’s likely no one ever talked to you much about computer viruses. You didn’t grow up with this issue. Computer viruses are rampant, and calls to help rid clients’ computers of these little buggers have been increasing. Read More...