Cranial Dump

Shoot, I didn’t think the Pope-Mobile traveled fast enough to warrant the Vatican’s “10 Commandments” of driving. 10 Ink Studios Blog comments on this racy subject (sorry, couldn’t resist) in How Would Jesus Drive?
I can add one more to the list: get off your cell phone and pay attention to the [...]

Well, thank goodness the judge had the common sense to identify this case as a waste of the court’s time…
A dry cleaner lost a guy’s pants and the guy goes after the cleaner for $54 million bucks. What kind of lawyer takes such a case? What kind of person even dreams up this [...]

I struggle with the term “user” when writing about how to use financial software on About.com, and I often stop writing to try to come up with a better term. Sometimes I think of a better term, sometimes not. The word “user” seems kind of harsh to me, or maybe my mind makes [...]

The blog is getting a bit stale here! Sorry about that, I’ve had a sick kid and then fell under the weather myself. Whatever virus this is, it still is holding on to my poor kid and me too. I’ve had some health concerns that require outpatient surgery, so I suspect stale [...]

“Good Lord, if someone had told me when I graduated from college that someday I would be a text monkey dependent on a search engine’s approval, I would have been stunned.” (I graduated from college before Al Gore invented the Internet)
–Me, in an email conversation with a coworker at Suite101, where I write about [...]

I received an invite to LinkedIn a couple of weeks ago, and gladly snapped it up. I still need to take some time to finesse my profile and learn how to use LinkedIn effectively, but I found some nifty features this afternoon while taking a few minutes to putter around with it. And [...]