Today I took my family to see M. Night Shamalan’s live action version of The Last Airbender. I am a fan of The Last Airbender, I think it’s an engaging well written animation series from Nickelodeon. I started watching it with my kids when it first came out, and have watched up to the very [...]

First I want to touch on why social networking sucks for growing a business, well actually SOME businesses. Let’s think about it, what do we call it? Social networking. Not business networking, but social.  Social networking can work for your business if you are selling something that people need once a year, or even every [...]

I don’t know about you, but I really count on email as my main means of communication.  This is true at my work, and in my personal life as well. I took a look at my email inbox, one of my in-boxes; I have quite a few, and I counted nearly 900 emails.  900 emails!  [...]

As my part time moonlighting gig Voice Acting, making sure my recordings are clean, tight and out of sight is a high priority. I’ve got a computer that is set up to do this.  I have Sony’s Sound Forge, a really clean microphone processor, a Mackie mixer board, a Neumann TL-103 mic… and I had [...]

I believe strongly in good solid networking.  Whether it be face to face, over the Internet, or some other method.  Networking is vital not only for the portion of your professional life, but for your personal life as well.  Fostering those connections is work.  I get highly disappointed when someone who has asked to be [...]

Here’s another Geek Alert! When you are restoring your computer from the restore CD, and you are going for the full restore… installing all the options and software your computer came with from the factory; you need to ensure that your computer is in the same state as it was when you purchased it. This [...]

iPad! Boy, does that Apple toy look amazing!   Yes I called it a toy, because the way it is right now it is just designed to be a toy. There is absolutely nothing wrong with toys, I have some… just wish I had more time to play with them.  But what I see in this new [...]

Recently I have noticed that if I leave my computer on, or my wife leaves her computer on and we have a browser up with a social networking site running (read: facebook), after a wile, likely overnight, our browsers and sometimes the computer itself will windup doing a faceplant…  needing to be rebooted. It seems [...]