Just a piano player

I had an odd dream in the early hours this morning.  I was in a cemetery, and I was distressed that my parents were, for some reason, buried...

I was down in my cellar office early this morning.  I had finished the routine stuff: my overnight email, my traditional bowl of cereal, and...

Remember back in High School Civics class (for people born after 1970, that was a mandatory class where the fundamentals of American Democra...

So, after working a whole bunch of hours yesterday, did I take the evening off and relax? Of course not. After dinner, I went down to the...

I arrived at the rally site around 11:30, with a hot Vietnamese coffee (with condensed milk) warding off the chill. There were maybe a coupl...

Some months ago, I built a project for a client that pushes Access data into a SQL Server database. For development, I installed SQL Server...

The specialist recommended by the Xfinity guys stopped by this morning, as promised. He was the quintessential grizzled old guy, who has se...

So, an Xfinity (i.e. Comcast) guy came to the door the other day, and he made me an offer I couldn't refuse, for cable TV and high-speed...

Many of my clients have upgraded to Office 2010 and several users have reported that SOME forms do not display correctly (as they do in Acce...

So, to recap, connecting the Captivate to my Windows 7 laptop via USB easily mounted it as a drive, and permitted browsing folders, creating...

Thanks to Dave for suggesting two things: 1) Before I get totally frustrated about the Captivate NOT being unable to be seen by my main ...

I had gotten so many things working on the new Android phone, that I decided to pop in my sim and start using it as my main phone, since the...

So, having concluded that the Windows Phone 7 Samsung Focus just wasn't going to work for me, I went back to searching craigslist. Ye...

So, I've had a Windows 7 Phone (Samsung Focus) for four days, with the goal of getting it set up to do everything my old Windows 6.5 pho...

So, after watching craigslist cell-phone ads intensely for the past couple of months, I leaped into the unknown two days ago. Here's th...

A friend we've known for MANY years called Saturday morning, to tell us that his (or her) home has been foreclosed, and he (or she) need...

First thing every morning, I run thru my list of Favorite web sites, to make sure that I get my initial dose of correct (i.e. non-GOP) think...

It's great to see that my son has managed to be his own friend. The question remains, how the heck do you do that?

The gaffe about 'Corporations are People' is fascinating, for many reasons. Obviously he didn't mean it in the sense of the Cit...

Let us remember. During his first two years, when there was a 'kinda' Democratic majority in the Senate (but not the magic '6...