How do you remember your passwords? Here’s a neat trick
Do you have a lot of passwords? Is the Pope Catholic?!? I use Access Manager to help me keep track of mine, but I still need a few passwords that I use frequently, and it’s bothersome to open Access Manager and retrieve them each time. But if you don’t use a software program that [...]
U.S. Tax Burden: 40 Million Government Workers. Is Japan better off?
Study says US government employs 40 million. Too little, just right, or top-heavy? How about in Japan?
Re-organizing my Evernote notebooks
At the end of last year, veteran newsletter writer and web-surfer Gary North wrote about Evernote: Internet Explorer offers Favorites. Firefox offers Bookmarks. They do the same thing. With the two clicks of your mouse, you can save a link to a Web article. With a little extra work, you can re-name it. It’s there [...]
Cars 2 Isn’t a Lemon. Its a Saab.
I haven’t seen Cars 2 (and probably won’t; Cars didn’t grab me), but I enjoyed this contrarian review of Cars 2 and other Pixar movies. Wall-E is about a robot that is programmed to pile up trash and search for any signs of a plant. Plants are seen as socially redemptive. This is the theme [...]
The Remnant Sings!
Gary North has a knack for finding media items – videos, commercials, emails from forum members, articles in professional journals or newspapers – and greatly adding to their initial value through his cogent comments, insights and creative suggestions. The link below is to an article that is an exception: in this case, Dr. North has found a [...]
“Don’t panic!” “What else is there to do?”
The video below was taken March 15 and concerns the lack of information and news about a third explosion at Fukushima (see the Wikipedia timeline). The young man in the video is frightened and concerned, as are many people in Japan, not only the foreigners. I do not blame him (some do, even those also living [...]
Hope is a Theological virtue?
In the chapter on Hope, in Book Three of Mere Christianity, Christian apologist C.S. Lewis wrote, “Hope is one of the Theological virtues.” And that put me off right there. Don’t get me wrong. I admire C.S. Lewis in many ways, especially his erudition and the conversational style in which he writes (he writes as [...]
Making the most of your time at work, or “your clock is ticking”
Image via Wikipedia Are you concerned about your future? Are you worried about the possibility of being fired? Or of your company going belly-up? What should you spend your time doing? Up-dating your resume? Checking your rolodex? Maybe joining LinkedIn? Facebook? These are certainly some questions I’ve been asking myself lately. What skills will I [...]
Re-learning to write: my 30-day challenge
I’m 53. I need to learn how to write. Are you a teacher? Have you spent so much time reading and writing academic articles and essays that you now find it difficult to change your writing style? Do you keep a “Dear Diary”-type journal? Do you want to develop a side-business, but are stumped by [...]
Film-maker predicts hyperinflation; an economist disagrees. Which to believe?
Cover via Amazon On a forum I visit daily, a member had posted a link to an article describing a hyperinflation scenario in the U.S. I visited it. Later in the day, the website owner, economist and historian (and music buff) Gary North responded (members only): I am writing this in response to a site [...]
