I have an office with my name on the door just like my father used to have. My office is 2,700 miles from my house or the length of the longest non-stop [...]

Accomplishment I remember how proud we were the day we moved into our new offices. I walked around with Peter the CEO of Talk City and there was a sense of accomplishment. [...]

I get asked all the time how I can get so many things done. One of my favorite tools to help get things done is a text macro program on the Mac [...]

I run this websites and a few others, including my more popular Amateur Traveler website on a bluehost.com account. I started to run into problems with performance as my site started to [...]

I had a number of things that I needed to get done today. I had 2-3 podcasts to produce and a few blog posts I wanted to write. It was not my [...]

I had a non-profit pitch a story for the Amateur Traveler recently and in the process of getting that story ready for publication I think there is a valuable lesson. What the [...]

My father is 84 years old and grew up, for obvious reasons, without computers and the internet. So I sometimes get requests from him that I can’t accomplish because he does not [...]

For my new position as the Director of Engineer for TripAdvisor Flights I am looking for a great engineer. I am looking for someone senior who other people describe as a code [...]

As an engineer by training I have had a love / hate relationship with sales people. “Why can’t they just sell the product we have instead of some product we don’t yet [...]

On November 20th  I will be teaching a one day short course at DeAnza College called “Blogging for Profit”. COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will look at How to pick a topic for [...]