No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

Watching the news today, you can’t miss that the stock market has plunged, with the S&P 500 taking the biggest hit in 3 and a half years.
I wish I could say I’m surprised. I’m not.
We here in the U.S. are living in a state of denial. We’re denying that the money we’re taking out of [...]

Steve Rubel with some outstanding tips for using Gmail as your personal "nerve center."
Excellent information. I too was a Gmail beta user (paid $9 on eBay for an invite LONG ago - hey, a couple weeks before they were going for $100!), but have mostly used Gmail for…Well, email. It has been my primary for [...]

Reflections on 10 years of blogging. I’ve been linked by Dave Winer (more than once) and like him. I also incredibly appreciate his work, which got me into something (blogging) that has become a very important part of my work. It’s funny…A few short years ago, when I’d introduce the concept of the weblog to [...]

Stranded Mount Hood Climbers Taken Off Mountain.
It’s winter.
3 climbers just died up there.
What were they thinking, and why did they take their dog?

This isn’t a cat blog, nor do I go about posting pics of my girls, but I think it’s appropriate, since today we lost Abbey, just over two years after losing Neko.

They were great cats, hardly any trouble, more or less sociable (depending on the person - isn’t that always the way?) and patient with [...]

It’s February in the desert, and at least this morning, it’s cold.

Well not as cold as my weather widget said this morning, but cold. When you live in the desert, you come to appreciate these early morning winter shivers, because you know it won’t be long until they’re a melancholy memory. You’ll step out into [...]

Zefrank on “Waves.”

Insightful and really, really smart.