The problem with email is it has no inherent ability to provide any level of organization that contextually maps to importance or subject matter. Instead the human brain is asked to do context mapping with random piece of data.   Our brains  no doubt have the ability to categorize, but not 100 times or more per day!  Instead we need a dashboard type system that we can filter... »

Hi you must be…, hey how was your weekend? Did you hear that..? Do you like him? How weird is that? Hey good to see you, Wow you look great!, I so glad we talked, I love how you say that, I love that color, I can see you are upset, I can see... »

Everyone is! Is Twitter the new email? DM, RT or simply tell the world, oh and keep it short. »

Continuing in the mode of automation I am trying to figure out the  cost benefit of   www.perceptiveautomation.com/indigo/ vs www.control4.com. Were I still married I would not have the time to devote to such important topics, but hey ho, 17 years later, I do have time.  Yeah, I can control my thermostat when I am in Jamaica, I can unlock the front  door to... »


I am somewhat of a nut for financial software and having experimenting, after long purposeful absence from Quicken, with Mvelopes, an envelope based budgeting system based on  before you spend based on an ancient theory of stuffing bills under mattresses in order to save for and  pay for stuff.  That sorta disappeared the time credit cards came out and the more recent notion of shopping to beat terrorism. Still an all I have tried out  a few packages online and... »

I live alone and I work a lot so every labor saving device is a boon. Cleaning the house is never fun, that is why I invested in a Roomba, a robot vacuum cleaner. Every morning at 9 am after I have left for work, it zooms about the house cleaning up dust, navigating floors and carpet nicely.  Meanwhile my Scooba washes... »