Small business owners may want to hire some employees for various jobs to help them in their business operations. Whenever you do hire employees, you'll be asking for cover letters and resumes fro…

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. – Indira Gandhi
Last week I learned that one of my former high school administrators (who retired last year) was diagnosed with cancer. Always upbeat an…

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. -abraham lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was asked by a young attorney how to build his law practice. His advice (part of it quot…

It's cooking day. Tomorrow is Christmas Eve and if I want anytime with my family, then I have to start the cooking today. On the stove, as I write this, is a Dutch oven with bubbling beef stew, …

You may have heard about the Japanese solution to round watermelons. The article originally surfaced in 2001:

Japan has again shown off one of its greatest innovations – square watermelons.

For y…

This is a great picture of Transfagarassan Road in Romania taken by photographer Tom Robinson. It reminds me of the curvy road in San Francisco. If you've ever visited San Francisco and driven dow…

I found a neat blog posting today from Open Source Innovation entitled Let's Put Open Source to the Test. The blogger, a self proclaimed creative thinking problem solver, is offering his/her skill…