Archive for September, 2006

Calling All Annie Leibovitz Fans

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

Newsweek features Annie on the cover this week. There is a nice collection of images from her recently released book, A Photographer’s Life: 1990-2005. There’s an interview to accompany the article at xtra.Newsweek.com on MSNBC.

Client Spotlight Blogalogue: The Anonymous Trader

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

Here’s a unique offering. This interview spotlights one of my clients who needs to remain anonymous due to the nature of her profession. She agreed to be interviewed as long as I didn’t reveal her identity. She trades in Native American jewelry and other artifacts, a mostly male-dominated field in which one’s contacts are closely [...]

Word Dukes it out With Tiger; How I Became My own Tech Support

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

A few days ago I mentioned that I was trying to troubleshoot the spinning beach ball encountered whenever son attempted to save a Word doc on his BRAND NEW white MacBook. Specifically, we’re talking about MS Office for Mac 2004 and Tiger duking it out.
Tech support for Microsoft suggested a reinstall of the MS Office [...]

When Tech Support is Having Technical Difficulties

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

This is a true story.
My college-age, student athlete son recently purchased a new Mac, at my suggestion. Of course he spent three times what his cohorts’ computers cost, but he took my advice (”you won’t have to worry about viruses and spyware”) and made his largest purchase of his young life.
A few days ago [...]

Carrying Capacity Part II

Friday, September 15th, 2006

In November of 2005, I wrote a post called “Fall & Carrying Capacity.” (You can look at that article for a definition of carrying capacity if it’s unfamiliar—as a former science teacher, I find many science concepts that pertain to my business life and I toss them around with impugnity.) In that article, I compared [...]

Nikon D70 Progress…

Friday, September 15th, 2006

It’s been almost two years since I began my halting migration from film photography to digital. I felt such exuberance a couple of months ago when I discovered I could use my excellent lineup of lenses on this D70, and that I could apply all my old knowledge about shooting a 35mm camera in manual [...]