The pain and reality of air travel. Or…people are lazy, inconsiderate idiots.

Traveling is a severe pain, or so implied a piece I heard on the radio last week. After flying on a connecting flight to Jacksonville this weekend, I have to agree.
Aside from having to deal with passengers around you - regardless of your travel mode - you’re now subject to the crappy policies that airlines, [...]

New Year, Same Thinking. Do you take advantage of your time?

New Year’s Day has always been my Everest, my college diploma, my driver’s test. It exists in memory as the day when I emerge better than the challenges before me…victorious.
While the day is a temporal rebirth - at least for those who follow Julian calendars - it’s also the first test of the year. How [...]

What do you resolve? Resolutions on New Year’s Day 2009.

[UPDATE - Just turned this into a podcast. Here's the sound file]

I just spent about 22 minutes taking headshots of myself for a speaking engagement I have in the middle of the month. None of the photos came out correctly because I’m hideous and my glasses kept reflecting the camera flash.
Therefore, I resolve to become [...]

Softwariness. A response to Alex Payne.

As the world of computing changes, those of us who use computers in our personal and professional lives are faced with a variety of choices. Aside from the platform we use - Macintosh is my choice, but you’re free to use Linux or Windows - there’s a slew of software created to help us work [...]

The problem(s) with written communication.

Any writer will tell you that they’ve been misunderstood at some point - perhaps many points - during their career. These misunderstandings occur when readers fail to read and subsequently project their feelings, misperceptions, fears and biases on the words in front of them.
Take a piece I recently wrote about Heifer International. The piece appeared [...]

Local Mayor Doesn’t Care if Students are in School until July.

A Boston-area politician decided Thursday to declare a snow emergency a full 21 hours before the first flake of snow was expected on his city’s streets.
That seemingly compassionate move was actually short-sighted, stupid and ultimately could put students in that town in school until the first week of July.
You see, in this particular city (like [...]

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