New Year Reflections

Wow! Happy New Year! I’m not ready! I’m still reeling from Thanksgiving, and then quite suddenly – Christmas. It seems there is never quite

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Year End Thoughts

Life goes on. Sometimes at a breakneck pace. No time to stop and smell the roses, or to mend a friendship, or to give

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Disaster relief info dig deep

With thanks to the New York Times, here are organizations accepting donations for the earthquake tsunami disaster relief effort. Please consider the tens of

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HDTV comes home

Not quite two years ago, my wife and I were in the market for a new television. We were replacing an aging 27” and

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Spare a moment

During this holiday season, set a little time aside, pray if that’s your thing, or even make a donation. But at least give a

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The day after Christmas

Now that you’ve caught up I can wish all you Americans a Happy Christmas. We had quite a lovely day yesterday … all the

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We need a little Christmas

Christmas is a great concept sometimes being ruined in its execution. For some reason, the great idea of peace, love and goodwill towards men

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Do NOT shop at SonyMusicStore

A friendly warning, stay away from www.sonymusicstore.com (Sony Music Store Online) These people do not do what they promise and I am not impressed

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Two-part HARMONY (humor)

Poor Real.com. All that music and no one to sell it to. Well, except for those that bought one of their MP3/AAC players. What

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What America Does Best

America is still a great country, in spite of our flaws. I, for one am tired of hearing about nothing but the wrong things

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Apple subpoenas Mac websites

Apple subpoenas Mac websites “Hey, MyMac, why don’t you guys cover the rumors? Those articles sure do get the hits!” I was asked that

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Freedom in America Revisited

In an earlier blog entry, I wrote the following: From the Seattle Times In an apparent reversal of decades of U.S. practice, recent federal

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The Library of Babel

The announcement by Google that they will begin digitizing and indexing the contents of the world’s great research libraries — a step in the

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