by Bruce | Jul 6, 2011 | General, Tech Trends
For Father’s Day this year I got a new Nook “Simple Touch Reader” so I have had it for about a month – time for a review. I figure it was time when the “battery warning” came on yesterday and it told me I was down to 20% of capacity, so I decided to charge it up. ...
by Bruce | Jun 30, 2011 | General
I had a goal to get my blog up and running again by the end of June – so I figured I’d get a head start today I’ve been away from blogging for a while – first because of a major technical snafu at my previous hosting provider (WebHost4Life – ironic name), but...
by Bruce | Apr 19, 2010 | General
I spent last Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the Festival of Faith and Writing which is a conference for authors, playwrights, publishers, readers, teachers, etc. I’ve been going to the conference since 1996, which was three years after I wrote my last/only book,...
by Bruce | Apr 12, 2010 | General
It is no secret that most of my friends and family are non-programmers. When a group of us get together “in real life” and I do find someone to talk technology with, we usually get the look of “oh they’ve gone off into the fantasy world of acronyms again, give them...
by Bruce | Apr 5, 2010 | General
I headed over to the Apple Store over lunch to see the new iPad, and I was really happy they had about 12 of them out for people to try out. I did not become an iPad owner, though it would be very tempting if I didn’t have to pay off my surgery (could actually...
by Bruce | Mar 30, 2010 | General
About a month ago I started attending a new group forming now in Grand Rapids called “ Toastmasters for Techies”. I had heard of “Toastmasters” many times in the past as a group that had been around for a long long time to help people get better at speaking in...
