Today’s words to live by: ” I fall, I rise, I make mistakes, I live, I learn, I’ve been hurt but I’m alive. I’m human, I’m not perfect but I’m thankful. “

Like everyone else I am increasingly more and more in awe of Google‘s technology portfolio. I remember trying Babelfish a few years back and though it did present a translation of what I pasted in the translate box it had limited implications – like when you need to ask “how do you say…?” in this or that language. But I had a need to translate a website from German to English and remembered Google’s translate feature. It does much more than Babelfish’s paste a word/phrase -> translate thing. I pasted the URL of the webpage and clicked the link on […]

Because this is a presidential election year, I am hearing so much of the usual rhetoric about why I should vote for this guy over that one. Something I not only expected to be bombarded with but I knew would be a major topic of discussion would be the economy. Of course the economy is not where it should be – and because President Barack Obama said back before the start of his presidency that if he couldn’t get things changed in four years no one in Washington would be there next election cycle. Well things have not changed so […]

The drive it from Saturday night was pretty decent. Unfortunately, the Las Vegas night did not do the usual temperature drop. This night 100-degrees persisted well into the 11pm hour. Only rarely did the warm air blow but even then it was only beareable. Prolonged exposure to these temperatures is dangerous so it won’t be something I do again for quite a while – probably in the fall. So back to the air conditioned cinema I go for the next movie. Double feature you will be missed… 🙂

I purchased my Hurom Slow Juicer today – another one of my expensive purchases like the carpet shampooer but with luck I will use this thing. I will let you know as I am going to be trying a 30-day detox. I don’t know if I can do all juice only, but I’m going to at least try to have a juice meal everyday. I will let you know how day 1 goes tomorrow.

I have been a moderate Apple devotee for several years. Although I never rush out to buy the new product releases the day of delivery I usually wend up with it sometimes. Well I had a MacBook that I enjoyed for over 2.5 years with no problems – only the usual software glitches. I am far more a Windows/Linux person for work and personal use but a couple years ago I bought the MacBook because I liked the simplicity for leisure use and the relative few potential virus problems of the platform when I am out on public wifi networks. […]

In this current election cycle, we have heard so many times that taxing the richest Americans will somehow force them to STOP creating jobs in our very fragile economy. I think it is absurd to believe that just because you have money you are the engine of growth for our economy. Rich people are rich not because they are good citizens alone some are rich for just the opposite reason. If somehow you have amassed millions or billions of dollars it is a good guess that you didn’t get that way by paying your employees well. In fact probably only […]

I remember quite a few years back when Motorola was the tech company. It made chips for the Mac and created hundreds if not thousands of products for business, consumers, and telecommunications firms. It was true that everyone had something associated with Motorola or created by them. But of late Motorola has gone the way of Hewlett-Packard (HP) in that back when it was a more specialized company before it was a mega company it built quality products that you could count on for a long time. Well as I have experienced with HP’s crap over the years, Motorola’s has […]