Feb 16
I call it a virus. Whatever you call it, your mood spreads to the people around you. You hear expressions like, “Her entry brightened up the entire room”. How did that happen? We pick up “something” from the people (or things) around us. And we react to it. We may not be aware that we’re …
Feb 08
I stumbled across the gem of a website 20 years ago. This was during a time I was looking for a text editor/word processor that could also function as an outliner with NO artificially imposed file size limts. And it seemed that everybody was selling a solution. I didn’t want to buy a program. I …
Feb 08
I have this reminder right near my coffee maker so that I will see it first thing in the morning. I follow that statement with this one, “Just throw that moment up on your blog even if it is just to confirm someone else’s post…or to disagree.” And this, I think, is a pretty good …
Dec 10
Plans are important. They give me something to look forward to. For most of my life, I’ve had this “thing’ for computers and for outlines and I have found no better outliner than Emacs. Love it! Outlines form the basis of planning. Or perhaps it’s the reverse? And Emacs makes altering, refining, and changing an …
Jul 05
Have you noticed something in the last few weeks?There’s a general “slow down, go slower, even slower than that” feeling with the population in #yeg. This is great news! We need to do this regularly. But with all the events of the last many couple of years we haven’t been able to do it. There …