Recently while at a Starbucks, I tried an Americano coffee drink. For years I had been trying to bump up the caffeine of my standard coffee house drip with a shot of expresso added, the classic Red-Eye. But, now, after trying the multi-shot-expresso-based Americano, I have a new “bring-it-online-fast” drink. This video shows how the [...]

Have you been wanting to spiff up your blog header to the latest look and feel? If so, here are my 12 steps that I use to create a Web 2.o style text title using PhotoShop Elements 6.0. The characteristics that give it the Web 2.o look and feel are the appearance of having a [...]

Here are one dozen tips on being civil adapted from George Washington’s “Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior”.   This list is mostly a reminder to myself on how to treat people well.  In a world that applauds  an in-your-face-shoot-from-the-hip handling of others, these tips may seem absurd. However, I share these first dozen for [...]