Month: April 2005

  • Politeness

    Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.Thomas Sowell

  • Test for Dementia

    It’s that time of year to take our annual senior citizen test.Exercise of the brain is as important as exercise of the muscles.  As we grow older, it’s important that we keep mentally alert.  The saying; “If you don’t use it, you will lose it” also applies to the brain, so… Below is a very…

  • Put a Tiger in your tank

    My copy of OS X Tiger (10.4) arrived yesterday afternoon from Apple.  The installation went very smoothly; except for having to re-establish my Wi-Fi connection.  So far I’ve only done the install, and played with Spotlight and looked at the updates to Safari, but it appears to be another winner from the Apple stable.

  • Misery

    The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.George Bernard Shaw

  • Guess the Google

    Guess the Google: very attractive game, even if it’s near-impossible to guess the word right.  Thanks to Amit Gupta.MP3 downloads from Amazon Worth reading: Are you in a race to the top?  Or…?Click “What dog are you” in the lower right.  [The Dr. is an Irish Setter]Ramayana cartoonGood Experience newsletter, 26 April 2005

  • Outsourcing

    Success with outsourcing mirrors that in the divorce rate; that is, one in five deals end within a year, and 50% of all deals end in five years.Ken Landis, Deloitte Consulting

  • Spring fever

    As is predictable, the marathon weekend brought our first good weather.  Spring has come to Boston.This means six weeks of unpredictable weather with rain, just a chance of snow or frost and the annual Pothole Filling Frenzies and Muddle Puddle festivals.As they say on the Radio:“We can look forward to a 30% chance of 60…