Heading to Chicago today, and used my iPod on the way to the airport to catch up on the Kojo Mnamdi (whoa on spelling – that can’t be right!?)’ Tech Tuesday with the Computer Guys podcast. A caller asked whether he should update his OS (caller was a PC user) to Vista or just start [...]

Which I don’t. In my reading about trackbacks (how to, etiquette â€â€? as in, don’t do it if the site you’re tracking back to is set for pingbacks, I find I’m more confused after looking through assorted tutorials. A good site for info is OptiNiche Blog. Over there I learned that even though your own [...]

I’m planning to update my Mac software in the next week or so. Before I buy anything Mac-related, I always visit macrumors.com to check the buyers guide, which reports info on buying cycles and has saved me hundreds (at least) in purchases made in the past. In stopping there today, I spotted a great tip. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This new camera of mine is not the newest or priciest in the Nikon lineup, but I got it because it was on sale and because I could finally incorporate all my old 35mm lenses. Also because whenever my friend Karin gets a new tech toy, I have to also. Same with my uncle Gary. [...]

As a way of paying tribute to my amazing clientele, I have launched a series of interviews with the dynamic people with whom I have the priviledge of working.

Drumroll. Herewith, Loosely Speaking presents the first “Client Spotlight Blogalogue,” featuring Hazel Bowman, owner of Celebrations by Bowman and PrescottWeddings.com. In addition Hazel is an ordained minister.

I have an old photo of me taken when I was about a year old, with a camera around my neck. I am that person who likes to be behind, not in front of, the camera. Not like my kids who, when they see the camera come out of the case, start hamming it up. [...]

And the blogging (r)evolution continues, even here in my little workshop. I’ve now done the html blog (since 2003), converted to Typepad less than a month ago and then, today, waded into WordPress. After all the reading over the past few days, I determined that WordPress is the route for me. As a VA (virtual [...]