Over the past year (May, 2008 through May, 2009), I made over one-hundred posts to this blog, focusing primarily on technical writing and software. I have made only a few posts that relate to the complimentary side of professional life: one’s health. Should we take our health for granted? I say not. To have good [...]

Happy Memorial Day Weekend to everyone in the USA. If you get the chance, stop by your local Border’s Bookstore (that is, if there is one close by, otherwise just go online to www.borders.com), and you will see an amazing assortment of sales on books. Last night I picked up several books for exceptionally cheap [...]

There is nothing more important for your career than information. You could even say that information is at the heart of “street” smarts, assuming you agree with me that information is at the heart of intellectual smarts. One of the biggest challenges of my work as a Technical Writer is the researching and discovery of [...]

I love to work and I have to really program myself to relax and take a vacation. However, we cannot deny the fact that our lives are dualistic and we must treat each side of “the tao” if you will. In other words, if you put in a good and productive week, you should spend [...]

Ideas are the heart and soul of every project in our life. Ideas are the very “essence” of all actions we eventually utilize to accomplish our goals.
In short, ideas matter, and they matter in a big way. Many people go through life and shut off the “ideas” channel in their mind and focus exclusively [...]

When it comes to Screen Capture software, there is none equal to “Snag-It” by Tech-Smith. Currently at Version Nine (9), Snag-It offers the user many different ways to capture the visual computing experience into an image that can be then used for publications, blogging, or even video and training purposes. The scope of Snag-It is [...]

This_weekend, I took a bold step forward in my computing life and went ahead and downloaded and installed the new Microsoft Windows 7 RC (Release Candidate, which comes before the full Release) Operating System. It was a challenging and time consuming process, and what I am going to share with you in this blog post [...]

For quite some time now, I have been a subscriber to the website called “Fruitful Time”. Essentially, this website is geared to help you (as an employer or entrepreneur) take control of your time and optimize it in all sorts of interesting ways. Recently, I was given a free copy of one of the programs [...]