John McCain is a gracious man. Despite an increasingly negative campaign in the last weeks of the campaigning, he has always been a good person. While he wasn’t able to prove it to enough of the people, McCain has a long career of bipartisan service. His speech last night was typical of what I’ve come…
Month: November 2008
Why Technology Bites
I spent six hours Monday working my heart out on a client file, carefully saving every ten minutes or so. Went to open the file yesterday – yes, it’s gone. Nowhere to be found. I searched for it. Nope. Every unedited version is there, but not the one I need. I looked in the Temporary…
Making Change
We were up at 5 and at the polls by 5:30. They didn’t open until 7, but we weren’t the only ones there – we were third, fourth, and fifth in line. The earliest was there at 5 waiting. Glad we did, too. By 6:15, all the parking spaces were gone. By 7, they were…
TGI…W? (A brief political announcement)
I’m so excited about tomorrow. The election will be over and we’ll know for sure who our new President will be. But that’s not the main reason. No, I’m excited because tomorrow, all the damned phone calls will STOP. I’m on both the state and the national Do Not Call lists. Apparently, nonprofits and partisan…
When Clients are Wrong
What? you say. Can clients really be wrong when the customer is always right? Uh, yes. Recently I had a situation with a client in which he thought I said one thing when emails clearly showed I had said nothing of the sort. It was obvious there was confusion. What wasn’t obvious, to him at…