Beyond the Rhetoric

As you are reading material both online and offline, there is a good chance that you are going to encounter terminology that is unfamiliar to you. It could be industry jargon, niche-specific lingo, or just uncommon words used in uncommon kind of ways. For example, I remember the first time I saw “MMO” written on [...]

I’ve stated many times before on this blog that life is what you make of it and that it’s all about perspective. It’s up to you decide whether the glass is half-full, half-empty, or full of potential. Taking this idea of fresh viewpoints and new ways to look at old things, I decided to dedicate [...]

It seems that nearly every city I visit, I have an inherent urge to see its zoo. I was particularly impressed with Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle and I’ve had the chance to visit the Greater Vancouver Zoo as a “local tourist” as well. There’s just something to be said about being able to see [...]

With the ongoing recession and all kinds of other things going on in our lives, it can be pretty common to receive what appears to be bad news. Life being what it is, things aren’t always going to go your way. That’s an unfortunate but ultimately inevitable fact. With this in mind, how do you [...]

Although I didn’t like it very much initially, Google Chrome has become my web browser of choice. It beat out my old favorite, Mozilla Firefox, because it grants more of the screen real estate to the web content and much less space to the otherwise useless “window chrome” of toolbars, taskbars, and status bars. I [...]