Es ist die Endphase der Conference-Spiele im College Basketball. Bevor am nächsten Sonntag die NCAA (US-Hochschulsport-Verband) die 65 Teilnehmer der March Madness festlegt, stehen in 30 der 31 Conferences die Playoffs an. Die großen, wichtigen Conferences fangen erst in dieser Woche an, mit den F...

With so many of us facing the prospect of hunting down a new job, I thought it would make sense this week to focus on how to get the most out of your job search. First topic to tackle: the sticky question of when, if ever, to tell a prospective employer what you want to earn. Laurie Ruettimann at Pu...

I have always found that one of the toughest parts about working in Photoshop is selecting parts of an image for deletion or enhancement. When I first started using Photoshop many years ago, I thought the only way to accurately make complicated selections, ones that aren’t simple rectangles or...

Yeah, March is the windy one...however on the way home I saw what was probably the Dad and and a young girl and boy flying a kite and trying to get another one going...what was unusual is that it has been years since I have seen such a thing....along with pick-up games on empty ball fields...lots of...

It looks like Winter may be gone in these parts?  Naw...at least another 5 weeks to go...enough cordial weather talk...for the Computer selections click it on Download Friday Is Here   (and have a Beer)... Last night I hit a couple of pick 3's...at Yonkers the one that completely cau...

If you got a large hard drive with all kind of multimedia files you might sometimes need someone else to tell you what to watch or listen to. We all have this moments of indecision where to much choice can make it harder to make a decision. Shall I watch 24, Lost or The IT Crowd? Do I want to listen...

I got a lot of positive feedback on my “Advice for Small Schools on the LMS Selection Process” post, so I’m going to continue the occasional series. You can find all the posts in the series at any time by going to the “small school LMS selection” tag on my site. To reca...

The Last 2 days have seem like someone took a tire-jack (the old heavy toothed one) and bashed me in the ribs, breaking 2 and bruising my kidney which resulted in a 10 day Hospital Stay...(true story about 40 years ago...damn time flys)... I have taken a beating in the NHHC qualifier at youbet.com a...

Dear Stanley, I work in a big financial institution. My company was taken over recently by another big bank, and now we have all new bosses. A lot of people were fired, most of my friends. Our department is smaller and everything is different. Everybody from my old company is now sort of a second-cl...

You know, if there's one thing about Quebec I can really respect it's their intense and pompous way of thumbing their own perceived superiority directly into your face at all times. Now I don't hide the fact that with the exception of Montreal I'm not a huge fan of Quebec, and before anyone gets the...