It’s time to do my taxes. I just sat down this morning to start on them. I love Intuit’s Turbo Tax – not only does Intuit sponsor our .Net User Group ( http://northdallas.net ), but their software always seems to net me a larger return than doing taxes manually. A few years ago, I stopped...
This post is a recap and review of a Web 2.0 Summit session from October, 2009. This was another great session from the Web 2.0 Summit in San Fransisco. In this presentation, Cynthia (CJ) Warner of Sapphire Energy talked about algae oil and the current state of energy. She talks about bio fuel solutions...
This post is a recap and review of a Web 2.0 Summit session from October, 2009. In this video, John Battelle, the panel moderator, talks with The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Google and The Huffington Post. There are some tense moments and, in my opinion, The Times and The Journal shine....
I attended the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco in October as a guest of Microsoft. I got to watch many of the sessions from the Microsoft lounge while meeting with attendees about social media and various other topics. There was one particular panel discussion that I thought was awesome. I tweeted, “The...
I’m studying the 12 Apostles right now and what’s really amazing to me is how they are described in the Bible. They weren’t the academic elite. There were no great theologians or orators. They lacked faith, betrayed and rebuked their Lord, doubted, denied and eventually forsook Him...
I’m so sick of the message telling me how to leave a message after the beep. I know what to do – I’ve been leaving messages on answering machines and cell phones and everything else since like 1985! We get it! Drop the message. I tweeted about this tonight (along with another cell phone...
No, I won’t share my calendar with you… I seem to often get requests to share my calendar in Outlook. Various people in my company who want to schedule my time with a client or to review an RFP or something believe they need some special access to my calendar. Sometimes I “deny”;...
My church is having a contest to see which adult bible fellowship-produced YouTube video could get the most hits. The following is the submission my class produced. digg_url = 'http://digg.com/people/Element_26_Bible_Fellowship_Be_The_Church'; When we started working on our video submission, we had several...
I saw a tweet come across the other day from @ adamkranitz : adamkranitz : I would kill for "Duplicate This Post" button in Telligent CommunityServer blog software. Hmm… I have a list… I mean, I think I can figure that out… So I asked @ adamkranitz for some details, pulled...
Douglas Adams, a self-proclaimed “radical atheist,” wrote a series of books called The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I read several of them in English in, I think, the 9th grade until my teacher stopped giving me credit for reading them :). In the first book, a computer is built...
