Searching for feed reader reviews, I find an opinion poll about what's the "best" reader. This is silliness. "Best" is subjective, and to get a valid recommendation we need to define our needs and criteria for meeting them. [Continue]

Pdfs are a vestige of analog thinking in a digital world. This persistance of the outmoded is a common pattern when pervasive technological change happens, but the blogosphere and altered information habits is forcing a change. [Continue]

I’m noticing a severe lack of real story lines, much less storytelling, in free online rpgs.  The problem isn’t only found in free online rpgs - it’s in many paid rpgs as well -  but the free ones are ubiquitous these days, [Continue]

Traditional means of rating employee satisfaction focus on surveys and interviews. I suggest an alternative method: to let employees critique management. By identifying who and what is problematic in a company, employees reveal not only their [Continue]

In the grievously chaotic haystack that is WordPress.org and all the myriad related hackers, coders, designers and geek blogs and websites that deal  with this topic, you can well imagine that finding a concise, specific solution to a concise, [Continue]

 Been kind of filling in the foundation here so this platform can leap through many hoops in the coming weeks and months.  A big Thank You to the marvelously talented Ed Beard, Jr., for permission to use his fantastic dragon artwork (his are the [Continue]

I suppose it was inevitable.   I get so immersed in my writing – must, because I “go there” and become part of these people, ride along with them like a ghost in the night or a spy-cam with night-vision – that I Become One [Continue]

I ignored Sidney Sheldon's Rage of Angels when it was on the best-seller lists, but lately became curious what drew people to his work. Reading it, I'm discovering some tricks about the craft of storytelling. [Continue]

If you’ve noticed some disarray in my feed or this site, that’s because I’ve been moving everything from old site to new, tra la, and am about to redirect the url. Feed will be redirected in coming days so you won’t need to [Continue]

I’ve been dealing with some blog and website issues all of today, and all I can say is man that sure sucks up time and brain. Not helped, either, when tech support tosses one’s problem back and forth between 4 people before a supervisor has to [Continue]