Technology Attitude: Why won’t this *#!$@*%! thing work?!?!

You just want it printed. You spent a bunch of time getting the page just so. You clicked the right buttons and the page is supposed to (magically) appear. But nothing. No blinking lights. No confounded error message. Nothing. Normally, all our nearly ubiquitous technology works amazing well, day after day… until it doesn’t. And when… Read more »

New Year’s Resolutions: Get Organized!

Resolutions come and go, but one that seems to hang around from year to year is “get organized.” The new year brings what many of us perceive as a fresh start for doing something new, or doing something better. Sometimes we make resolutions that are wildly impractical, and sometimes we set the bar so low,… Read more »

The Right Technology for the Task

Giving some thought to how we use technology. This is not so much a blog entry about technology as a prompting for some common sense. It is so easy to get enthralled by the “latest and greatest” gadget that we don’t see some of its shortcomings. We can check our e-mail, catch up on the… Read more »