A while back I received an email from a reader, Jim, in response to a couple of my blog entries,. One was regarding my entry titled: Nursing home and aging. I regarded his response thought-provoking enough to publish it here in its entirety. With thanks to Jim for taking the time to share his views — Continue reading »
Google Video Replaces Google Groups
📆 August 21, 2006
Remember Usenet? If not, ask your father and he'll tell you that Usenet was (and still is) the NNTP-based technology used to post messages online. For many years it operated much like the old bulletin boards. I would use my character-based terminal to post and read messages. Then a colleague of mine introduced me to — Continue reading »
Ducati dreams
📆 August 13, 2006
I'm probably one of the few people on earth who hasn't seen the entire Matrix trilogy. I actually caught the first Matrix movie on a Virgin Atlantic flight a few years back. I liked the movie so much that I ended up watching it a couple of times. I saw the second installment, Matrix Reloaded, — Continue reading »
PPC Click fraud
📆 August 6, 2006
Here's a vexing question for advertisers today: where should they place their advertising dollars to get the most bang for their bucks? Okay, this is not exactly a new, modern problem. As long as people have needed to advertise their products and services, there have been the complex issues of where and when. The Internet — Continue reading »
The Leaning Tower Of Pisa
📆 July 31, 2006
When I was a student in high school (not sure which grade), I learned about an alleged gravity experiment performed by the famous Italian physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei who lived in the 16th and 17th centuries. As the story goes, Galileo was trying to prove that earth's gravity exerts the same acceleration on all — Continue reading »
Versatile Grape
📆 July 21, 2006
One of my strange traits is to sometimes take note of seemingly trivial, unimportant things about stuff. Like the other day I was having grapes and it occurred to me that this fruit is one the most versatile foods that I can think of. Let's see: By themselves, grapes make a great snack. They are — Continue reading »
Jogging in the heat wave
📆 July 17, 2006
The entire U.S. is baking in the summer heat. Add oppressive humidity to that for the Northeast and you have a recipe for heat stroke and other heat-related issues. So how can I not heed the challenge and not go out for a jog? That’s exactly what I did this evening. Admittedly it wasn't at — Continue reading »
Danger, Trees
📆 July 16, 2006
Live in the woods long enough and it's bound to happen. Trees are generally peaceful beings. They give us shade and oxygen and prevent soil erosion. They are home to numerous insects and animals, and they are nice to look at. For us, the shade has actually been a money saver. Having a canopy of — Continue reading »
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