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BLOGGING ON A PDA This is my first Blog that was totally written on my Sony Clie using the new Sony portable keyboard. The Clie is one of those pieces of technology that still amaze me. As most of you know from reading my blogs, I work in technology and have for most of my life. I am blown away by how technology has changed our lives. Some of the changes are for the good and some not so good. I often wonder what people talked about in restaurants before there were computers. I cannot help but overhear conversations about some software or hardware or the Internet in every conversation going on around me. And I do not live in Silicon Valley. This week has been especially intense with all the anti-virus patches, security issues, and general failure of technology in one form or the other. It seems if someone’s computer is down you might as well have nailed them to a cross. However, you know, life does go on and problems do get fixed. Another one of my strange observati

Insurance Companies... You have to hate them. I am sure in my mind that the terrorists are not in Iraq but are here in the United States running the Insurance Companies. What we need to do is pull our troops back home and surround the Insurance Companies Corporate Headquarters and drag the CEOs and Agents out in the street and arrest them for conspiring to harm Americans. If you have ever experienced anything to do with an insurance company, you know what I mean. The hungry money grubbing monsters find more ways of getting into our pockets than the drug companies. I had a laptop computer stolen from my car when I was on business travel in Florida. Now I need to get insurance on my new home and all the insurance companies are saying because I had a claim in the last two years they have to charge me more. OMG, why??? It does not seem to matter that I had homeowners insurance with the same company for 30 years and without a claim. And you ask, why did I not just get insuran

The sun comes out in Wonderland. With what seems to be days with rain, there is finally a prediction of some fair weather over the next few days in Wonderland. Today I stopped into my breakfast place; you know the one with the big -M-. Well, today just as I made it to the counter, their computer went down and you know, the employees at the Big -M- do not have a backup plan. They simply are out of business until the computers are back on line. No paper method and do not even ask one of these dunderheads to figure out what a total would be for a biscuit and a soft drink much less figure change. All that is a lost art. I went to the doctor yesterday. This was the first time going to this doctor as my other doctor has decided to find a warmer clement. Anyway, the doctor walked into the exam room and introduced himself. He then stated “I can tell you right now you need to loose some weight� My response was “How many years of medical school did it take you to figure that o