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• Abra Academy PC Game Review

  June 21st, 2007 |

  This latest entry into the hidden object category takes place in Abra Academy, a school for witches. Players help Wanda survive four years of school by finding hidden objects and adding them to the cauldron. Unless you’re a fan of hidden objects regardless of the storyline or mini-games that occur between hidden objects puzzles, Abra Academy [...]

• How To Study

  June 21st, 2007 | Tags: education, school

  I believe in education for a lifetime, not just stop after college. I plan to take classes when time allows and eventually go to grad school — online preferably since lectures were rough on me (this is why). Of course, education doesn’t stop with formal classes. Reading books, researching a topic, and visiting related Web [...]

• Burger Island PC Game Review

  June 20th, 2007 | Tags: Burger Island, casual games, PC Games

  Burgers must be the new black of casual gaming because this is the third burger game I’ve run into in recent months and they’re not sequels or related to each other. Burger Island resembles Diner Dash: Flo on the Go in that both main characters run into a bad situation in a tropical locale and [...]

• Leaving a Client

  June 20th, 2007 |

  I’ve been thinking about this for a long time. I like and respect the client, but the work has turned tedious. It keeps falling on my list of priorities in serving my clients. I do good work — the trouble comes in when I do the work. Something prevents me from updating the content as [...]

• The Future of Newspapers

  June 19th, 2007 |

  My tennis team discussed the state of the newspaper because one of the players works for a major newspaper’s sales and marketing division. She said that the newspaper’s subscriptions were down, but readership went up. People pick up the paper in places like Starbucks, thus driving up the readership. The newspaper employee said that the newspaper [...]

• HTML in Newsletters

  June 18th, 2007 |

  I always subscribe to text version of a newsletters when given a choice since I don’t use the traditional e-mail client — usually Outlook. Plus, I use Web-based e-mail applications, which don’t display HTML e-mails very well. Jeffrey Zeldman rants about HTML newsletters, something I addressed in the past. Many respect him and listen to him [...]

• Deleting the Invisible Excel Macro

  June 18th, 2007 |

  In managing a big family weekend, I used Excel to track everything from invitations to RSVPs. I tried to create a macro to do something, but deleted it after figuring out it wouldn’t do what I wanted. Yet, every time I opened the workbook, Excel asked if I wanted to run macros as shown in [...]

• Adobe Error Says It All

  June 15th, 2007 |

  I guess Adobe Acrobat and its developers are not on speaking terms? Click image to view larger.

• All Paid Out

  June 14th, 2007 | Tags: grammar

  Came across this unfortunate spelling error that I see often (click the little green box below to view larger). This could happen out of habit since we’re used to simply adding “ed” to change a word from present tense to past tense. I’ve caught myself doing this on occasion. Sometimes my fingers have a mind [...]

• 10 Tips for Dealing with Problems

  June 14th, 2007 | Tags: adversity, life

  Stephen Hopson of Adversity University asks how people deal with adversity. The following lists ten ways I attack adversity. Perseverance. Do it. You stare at blank page. You can’t decide whether to accept a scary new assignment. Instead of dwelling on fears and roadblocks, do something. I recently accepted a writing assignment that scared me. Rather than [...]

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