Archive for July, 2009

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How to Get Audiobooks Onto Your Zune – and Off Again

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

Although I am a professional writer and blogger, although I keep up with the latest tech trends, although I am, might I say, something of a geek, I do not iPod. I don’t even iPhone. This is not a political nor even a religious position, it is simply the Way That It Is.
When Microsoft released [...]

How to Hire A Web Design Firm

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

How many times have you heard stories of people who hired web firms to design and develop their web sites and either got substandard sites or the developer ran off with their money? Or what about the entrepreneur who “hired” his nephew/friend/daughter to design the site for free, and the results were disasterous and this [...]

The Benefits of Automation

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

Automation is the use of control systems to control processes, reducing the need for human intervention. Putting this into context, automation is having technology do things for you so that you don’t have to.
Automation is all around us. When you’re at a set of traffic lights, there isn’t a traffic light operator that decides when [...]

10 More Linux Resources for Kids

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Yesterday, I wrote about Linux distributions designed with kids’ needs in mind and some of the software for children that runs on Linux. Today I thought I’d share some of the other resources I came across while researching a likely candidate to install on my nephew’s and niece’s new PC.

 Switching Your Kids to [...]

Seven Great Questions to Ask at a Job Interview

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

If you are going for an interview as a prospective employee then you should do some research.  Read the job description and requirements carefully.  Browse the web site to see how the organization presents itself.  Search for news items and comments about the company on news sites and blogs.
For the interview itself you should dress [...]

Linux for Children

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

I recently took possession of a pair of older PCs – the natural consequence of nagging one’s older relatives to get something a little more “post-Columbian” – and of course my first instinct is to refurbish one as a Linux PC for my nephew and niece, ages 7 and 5. My nephew, especially, is [...]

Functionally Dysfunctional

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

A Shift of Focus
Yesterday I spent some time with a bloke who wants to shift his life focus, change his career and begin doing some work with people who are struggling with certain challenges in their world. Over the last year he has had a few significant experiences which have given him a different perspective [...]

Scrum for One

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

That’s a funny word, isn’t it? “Scrum.” Scrum is a project management strategy for software development teams. The name comes from rugby (I guess) where it refers to the start of a new play. In the programming world, it’s a technique of coordinating a team’s work without a clear plan, working towards attainable short-term goals, [...]

Can’t-Miss Marketing: Just Ask

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

In the year since I started blogging, I’ve gotten a bunch of freelance writing gigs and regular jobs writing all over the Web. But, initially, no one offered them to me. I had this blog I was proud of, a super-cool design, and yet the offers didn’t flood in. Crazy, right? Tell me about it.
I [...]

Pain and Posture: The Basics

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Old “Doc” Plume, the local hardware store owner, who was known for his miraculous cures for arthritis, had a long line of “patients” waiting outside the door when a little old lady, completely bent over, shuffled in slowly, leaning on her cane.  When her turn came, she went into the back room of the store [...]

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