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Cloud, Offshoring Filing Security Concerns Neutralized

Added Assets, Income/Expenses, for a Full Financial Statement (Photo credit: i am real estate photographer) With the Federal Reserve still pumping money into capital markets to the tune of $80 billion...

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Sitting On A Chair In The Sky

Boeing 747-400 flight deck (with notes) (Photo credit: KOBUS 2C) With headline writing inspiration props to Louis C.K… The drive to the airport was mostly a silent one. “What are you going to do when...

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Apple Relies On Joiners, Not Switchers

Image via CrunchBase Apple wants you to join their party—their upgrade, buy a new Mac and iPhone when they want you to party. If you can pony up for a new(er) iPhone you can still drink at the Apple...

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SBP Easily Best, Most Powerful Product Messaging Strategy

The eight-striper wordmark of IBM, the letters “IBM” in City Medium typeface. Introduced in 1967. Trademarked by International Business Machines Corporation. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The layoffs at...

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The Absent Father

Gordon realized the minute he made the decision to not actively be part of his child’s life that it would set the tone for things to come. He didn’t arrive at the decision easily but felt it was best...

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What Have You Done For Yourself Lately?

A stitched panorama of downtown Portland, OR at night (Photo credit: Wikipedia) As I begin the second week of my hiatus from school between semesters, I find myself wondering how it is so many people...

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Is The Mac User Thrill Gone?

Apple I at the Smithsonian Museum (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The following article is written by a Mac user who has been one long enough to remember when there truly was excitement over the prospect of...

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Friday Sweets: Limiting Intermittent Explosive Disorder

Breakfast Bun and Coffee (Photo credit: epSos.de) I think people not eating enough and not getting enough sleep as two of the biggest issues today contributing to our general crankiness. With the...

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I’m sick of AARP

English: Prof. Dr. Bernd Marin at the AARP/European Centre Conference “Reinventing Retirement: Reshaping Health & Financial Security for the EU 27 and Eastern Europe” in Dürnstein/Austria, 23...

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The Underrated Old Dude as Worker

English: A homemade dumpster designed to be transported by a custom 3/4 ton garbage truck. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The old dude stepped up to the young kid and asked him what he needed. “My back is...

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PowerPC Users Celebrate Independence Day Every Day

TenFourFox icon (Photo credit: Wikipedia) For a computing platform that has been given up for dead more times than I care to remember, the PowerPC community of Mac users sure knows how to keep on...

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Let only the coffee be bitter

Bitter-Man, Chippewa chief, by Martin’s Art Gallery (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The master craftsman sits down and contemplates what the blank canvas before him will hold. He often thinks about creative...

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New Yahoo Mail Treats Customers to Old Advertising Tricks

Yahoo Arch (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This is still the land of the free last time I checked. But Yahoo forcing its new email down the throat of its user base beginning Tuesday, July 9, is another...

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When Sleep Won’t Come

Chocolate brownie in detail. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The chocolate brownie had no effect on his energy level. It was the end of the day and his body was letting him know in no uncertain terms it was...

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Going Places, Doing Things

Never, ever, think outside the box (Photo credit: Mrs eNil) I think deep down in all of us we long to experience new locales. If we can combine trips, even with ones lasting only parts of a day, with...

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Tipping Is Most Greatly Appreciated

Donations (Photo credit: Matthew Burpee) Blogging represents freedom of the online press for the twenty-first century. While mainstream media outlet news sources are owned by their parent companies,...

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Perhaps activism will prove not dead after all

Huge rallies like this one in Kolkata are commonplace in India. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) You would not be reading this right now if you were truly concerned about your privacy. I would suggest anyone...

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The fine art of butt smoking

Cover of Pretty Woman [Blu-ray]Greasing the skids. Sucking up. Kissing ass. Butt smoking. Stroking (someone’s ego?)… However you describe it, whatever you want to call it, does sucking up in any shape,...

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LibreOffice Writer Slick On PowerPC

English: LibreOffice 3.3.1 Writer Icon. Français : Icône de la suite bureautique LibreOffice 3.3.1, module traitement de texte. Português: Ícone do LibreOffice 3.3.1 Writer. Türkçe: LibreOffice 3.3.1...

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Consider your passion or prepare for disappointment

Hope (Photo credit: true2source) Many young people who decide to not go into one of the medical professions or learn a trade have already realized they will not likely ever find a job for life where...

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