In my last post I wrote about the need to work on PowerPoint files as being one of the few things dragging me back to a laptop or rather than being able to work wholly on a tablet. How spoiled have we become?  I remember what a breakthrough it was when I got my first [...]

Like a lot of people, I have a set of computer files I like to keep on hand, both at work and at home. At one point I used to move them back and forth on a floppy disk, then zip drive (remember those?), then USB, then later on I’d connect the two computers on [...]

I’m a good Cardiac Surgeon. At least my friend Dave Dolton on LinkedIn thinks I am. Dave endorsed me as a Cardiac Surgeon to prove a point, the point being you can endorse any LinkedIn connection for any skill, no matter how incorrect or far-fetched it might be. I am not a cardiac surgeon and [...]

I read that Google Reader was closing on Google Reader. I have a folder in Reader named ‘Critical’ that contains key feeds from Inside Facebook, The Official Google Blog, etc. and I try to always scan that folder at least every couple of days. For those of you not familiar with Google Reader, that’s the [...]

I was sitting and looking at a boring and uninspiring to-do list on a Saturday morning when I got a call from my good friend Jordan. “Let’s go to the opera,” he said.  Hmm, not remembering any strong connection between Jordan and opera, but knowing Jordan as an explorer, and a person who uncovers interesting [...]