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Yesterday's post was a writing exercise as instructed by the book, Writing Down the Bones. It's an exercise that teaches the writer to disconnect from the inner-critic. Throw logic out the window and just write non-stop. ...

I was very, very disappointed to see that national math scores have plateaued, and not at 100%. This is the first time that scores have not improved since 2000. It sad to see that the same ...

Technology is a wonderful thing, but because of it, some of my childhood fun has been taken away for future generations. I have compiled a list of things I will greatly miss because of technology.

Reality TV has been around for quite a while and many of the shows are starting to become stale. We need some new ideas to keep people's interest. My whole team (three dead mice on glue boards) and I have been hard at work coming up with new ideas. ...

We do everything we can to keep all of our personal and private information secure. We don't carry our Social Security Cards on us and we don't give out bank account numbers tophishers. These are all good practices. ...

I talked about the ownership principle a while back ("Nine-Tenths of the Law", Aug. 21, 2009) and how blogging was the only communication method that seemed to allow ownership of one's intellectual property. ...

As many of you may be able to tell, by the 109 straight days of posting, I like to write. I know the mechanics of writing and I have ideas, but getting them on paper can be a little more difficult. ...

Yesterday was the big Apple event, but it seems a little underwhelming to me. Everything, predictably, was regarding the iPod lines and changes therein. Basically, there are price cuts, higher capacities for existing iPods, new colors for others and some new features for the Nano line. ...

This week, I sense a theme. Both of these next inventions are fairly old, but have done so much for the way we look at our world.

The Internet isfraught with dangers, spyware, malware, viruses and all sorts of other things that you really don't want on your computer. Anti-virus and anti-spyware programs only work after ...

It's time once again to give everybody a little friendly advice from your friend, AlienCG. The Internet is loaded with a lot of hoaxes and gags that are put in place to make people look silly just for the purpose of ego (the hoax-starter's ego, that is). ...

Yesterday's flashback post inadvertently led me to think about an aspect of social networking that has been overlooked. I mentioned that I still have everything I have ever posted on any of my sites or anybody else's site (I did a few pieces for Kloud's old site). ...