Isn’t Life Strange?

With all the announcements of jobs being lost, companies scaling back operations, and some going out of business altogether, it seems to me that most people would be grateful simply to have a job at this time.
Never count out a union negotiation to throw a monkey-wrench into a machine (That would be our […]

In January of 1992 I was a teacher at my hometown junior high school. I remember stopping by the classroom of a science teacher who was watching the inauguration festivities of the new President, Bill Clinton. As clear as if it were yesterday, I remember saying to this teacher, “This is a great […]

I needed to provide a quick addendum to last night’s long post in which I reviewed several radio apps available for the Apple iPhone.
It must be noted that if you wish to use your iPhone as a radio, battery life will be a concern due to the demand that network communications places on […]

As a new user of the iPhone 3G, I have to say that it is one of the most remarkable pieces of personal electronics I have ever used. Much has been said about the device before, so I won’t give my personal impressions other than to say that it works very well for me. […]

Anyone who has visited the blog in the past week or so has probably noticed an error message replacing the sidebars to the right.
I thought I had tracked down the source of the problem and even replaced the entire script. That initially seemed to restore the sidebars to normal. But the […]

He’ll forever be immortalized as the villain Khan in the original Star Trek series. In the early 1980’s, a muscular Montalban appeared for a reprise of the role in the film “Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan”.
Of course, I’ll also remember him as the pitch man for the Chrysler Cordoba, […]