In March I had it! I was so frustrated with my pens. I’d always bought the cheap pens or received the complimentary pens – but they weren’t cutting it anymore! I was tired of having to switch pens while highlighting a book, or to switch pens in the middle of addressing an envelope, or to …
Introduction In this article I’ll be sharing the fruits of my research on home and small business access control systems. I’ve been doing some research in this area recently and figured if I had to spend a bit of time researching it I might as well share the fruits of what I find. Feel free …
I never had a cell phone till six years ago when I began working for Collages.net as a Systems Administrator. I somehow managed to live through my teenage years and my college career without one…but now I wonder how I ever survived without one? The good news is, since IT folks are generally “on-call” officially …
My first experiences programming where on a Commodore 64 and an Apple II+. In both cases there was no separation of the end user interface and the development interface…you could just start entering code at the command line and it would begin building. Things have come a long ways since then – this is good …
A subject of controversy for years has been whether internet sales should be taxed (or not). Currently, if you purchase an item from an out-of-state seller you do not pay sales tax on the purchase. This follows a similar practice that has long held true for mail-order catalogs across state boundaries. On a regular basis …
I love my Kindle. Tonight I used for the first time its built-in web browsing capabilities. Wow! One of the primary uses of my computer is for reading/writing on the web – so having this capability built into the Kindle is pretty amazing…but the lack of a touch-screen / mouse device quickly became evident. I …
Evernote is an application for “remembering everything.” It allows one to “capture anything” (e.g. text, websites, images, video, audio) anywhere (computer, phone, mobile devices). I use it to jot or record quick notes to myself when out and about, to keep sketches on various topics or notes on various books. I mainly use the windows …
So, I’m really good at keeping this blog up sometimes, but then other times I drop off the face of the earth for a few days or weeks. I want to minimize this from happening. I also have a tendency to have ideas for a bunch of articles all in a row…and would like to …
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[I no longer use Freshbooks, I now use Wave Accounting.] For years I’ve done side work relating to my profession (Information Technologies) – systems design / implementation / support and web design / development / hosting. For years I’ve gotten the work done, but not always the billing. I hate billing. I hate invoices. I …