Archive for December 2007

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Merry Christmas from My Family to Yours!

Merry Christmas from My Family to Yours!

Merry Christmas
          and
Happy New Year.
“What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace. ”
Agnes M. Pharo
“Christmas gift suggestions:
To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a friend, your [...]

What Tools Do You Use to Manage Projects?

What Tools Do You Use to Manage Projects?

As a project manager, I am always looking for great tools and utilities that will help me to become more productive and improve customer (internal and external) experience.
I know about the standard stuff that we use like Microsoft Project, Mindmapper, Excel, Outlook and the like.   What I would be interested in is hearing what you’ve [...]

How I Manage Projects with Outlook and Excel

How I Manage Projects with Outlook and Excel

There are a LOT of theories and ideas floating around to help with time management and productivity.  Classes and seminars are offered, books are published, and websites and blogs are posted all to try to help us better manage our lives.  For this author there has been no one method to help with time and productivity [...]

Thankful – Josh Groban

At this time of the year we often spend quite a bit of time reflecting on the year past and the things we’ve accomplished and those things that we haven’t.   We also seem to spend more time with family, friends,  and loved ones and when we can’t spend time with them we are certainly thinking [...]

Yellowstone Park Geyser Gallery

Geyser Pictures

WordPress Plugins - The Ones I Can't Do Without

WordPress Plugins – The Ones I Can’t Do Without

Every blogger is different and they way they manager their blog is different as well.  One of the great things about WordPress is just how easy it is to extend base functionality by adding and activating a plug-in.  Plugins fit into a ton of different categories and there are literally hundreds of them.  If you [...]

Theme Selection – Designers I like

In my review of WordPress themes that I can use to display content I believe I’ve finally settled on the one that is going to give me the most functionality, a nice crisp clean appearance, and integrated features that you can use to make your reading easier and more enjoyable.    Keep in mind I am [...]

Mickey Mouse Disney Pin Collector

Mickey Mouse Disney Pin Collector

For years and years I have collected vintage Disney items… about 15 years ago I decided that I needed to specialize and started selling items out of my collection that were NOT Mickey Mouse specific and purchasing ONLY Mickey Mouse items.  Still the collection is large and there is no way that I can display [...]

Getting Help with Microsoft Excel - My Recent Experience

Getting Help with Microsoft Excel – My Recent Experience

By my own admission I am NOT a Microsoft Excel expert.  I know enough about the application to make me dangerous. 
I use Excel pretty extensively in my day to day work activities, and in my continuing effort to streamline my day I decided that I needed to add some functionality to my project management spreadsheet.  This [...]

This isn’t what I was looking for. What’s Going On?

Did you get here and expect to be on a different post?  Let me try to explain what happened…
Wordpress and other blogs have these great things called permalinks.   They were invented by makers of the blogs to be permanent links to the postings that are found on the blog.   The idea was to always make a [...]