Archive for January 2007
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Cut Desktop Clutter
January 22nd, 2007 |I don’t like a cluttered desktop or Program List. Most of the time, I won’t let an application add icons to Quickstart (the >> between the taskbar and the icons on the left) or desktop, unless it’s a program I’ll access frequently. The most frequently applications get to live in Quickstart. According to this Seattle Times [...]
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Flower Shop: Big City Break PC Game Review
January 22nd, 2007 |I step into the role of Meg, who left the city for a quieter locale to open a flower shop. Though I’ve played the owner of a similar game that took place in a bakery, it didn’t prepare me for this one. Hence, it was good to have a tutorial guide me through the game [...]
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Pluto Gets Plutoed
January 19th, 2007 |Thanks to poor Pluto’s recent declassification as a planet, the American Dialect Society — an organization founded in 1889 that “is dedicated to the study of the English language in North America, and of other languages, or dialects of other languages, influencing it or influenced by” — picked “plutoed” as its 2006 Word of the [...]
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Customer Service for Home Projects
January 18th, 2007 |Do industries secretly agree not to provide the best customer service so no one gets a competitive advantage? A little overboard, but it looks that way lately. Our arch in front of our house cracked — not unusual based on the way it was built without rebars. But it scares me whenever people come to [...]
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Work around Writing Roadblocks
January 17th, 2007 |It happens to everyone, writers and non-writers. We need to write something, but can’t produce content — at least, nothing of good quality. A couple of people I know (one is a writer and the other isn’t) ran into this problem as a result of personal challenges. One weathering a dangerous storm and the other [...]
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The Intellectual Devotional Book Review
January 17th, 2007 |I recently read an article that says executives have higher vocabulary than the average person. Managers, too, but not as high as executives. This book is a great way to expand your knowledge. A devotional is a short religious service. Religious and spiritual devotional books break down religious readings into short chapters to help readers grow [...]
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Top 10 Books on Writing
January 16th, 2007 |Writing White Papers has put together an impressive list of the top ten books for writers. A list of finalists (for anything in general) often contain a couple of weak choices, but not this list. Stelzner asked readers to submit ONE favorite book, which created a strong list of finalists. I have some of these [...]
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Words with Multiple Meanings
January 15th, 2007 |In the US, today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. In spirit of celebrating our world’s uniqueness, we look at how people read or hear a word and understand it differently than originally intended. Many words contain multiple definitions, and sentences provide the context. A simple example: My daughter was watching a fashion reality show on [...]
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Viking’s Stationery Movies Puzzle
January 12th, 2007 |Taking a page from M&Ms Dark’s movie puzzle, Viking’s Stationery Movies contains 10 movies for you to guess. Only instead of a painting, it uses office supplies to depict the movies. I got 10 of 20. The ones I missed — I don’t think I could’ve gotten because I was either not familiar with the [...]
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Tags vs. Categories
January 11th, 2007 |I’m not into this tagging business. It works well for sites like Technorati, but I think for sites that aren’t social networks or bookmarking sites, tags don’t do the job. When I launched the new design of this place, it came with tags instead of categories. Research indicated that tags were the way to go. Some [...]
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