I have been smartphone user for many years, now. I started with my first Blackberry in 2006 and have been anxiously watching the development of Google’s Android operating system. I purchased an HTC phone in 2010 and recently updated to a new Samsung Galaxy SII. A few months ago.  In addition, my ten-year-old [...]

I’ve been a big fan of making simple notes and lists for years. Back in the ’90s, I had my Palm III, which I used to make lists of all sorts of things. In addition, I’d use the notes feature to add recipes, song lyrics, car maintenance information, combination, meeting [...]

I’ve been using the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) application for some years. I never really liked Photoshop and paying $500 for  terrible program was not a good idea in my opinion.  GIMP is great for editing photos and works on PC’s running Linux, Macintosh or Windows.  However, it had one MAJOR [...]

The LA County Registrar Recorder / County Clerk is honored to receive notice of two National Association of County Recorders, Election Officials and Clerks “2011 Best Practices Awards” for our new Business Filing/Registration Kiosk application and our Recorder Mail Processing operation! Congratulations to the analysts, programmers and staff [...]

I have my first game review on the gamephreakz website.

Please do check into it. Written by Supergenius – one of my contributors – it is well-written.  I’ve not played the game, but it appears intriguing.

Review of Fossil Fighters

Got home from a short vacation today. I found my ECMPlace discussion forum needed upgrading.

I very much like it when a software – such as phpBB - makes things simple and painless. I wish all software upgrades were such.

Do check out the

Just finished reading, How Full Is Your Bucket by Tom Rath and Donald Clifton, Ph.D.  I had read the book StrengthsFinder by Tom Rath and found it enlightening. This book was no different.

How Full is Your Bucket provides a metaphor to [...]

Just finished reading Ken Miller’s great book, Extreme Government Makeover.

Brilliant quote in the book, “The root cause of complexity is CYA. The root cause of CYA is handoffs. The root cause of handoffs is specialization. The root cause of specialization is distrust. All of the process-improvement tools in the [...]