I’m almost a week into my new job with HP and it’s been going pretty good so far. Mostly getting organized, filling out paperwork, getting my training scheduled and underway… You know – the normal points of a new hire. (I will say, I’ve been overly impressed with how easy everything has gone including a […]

Rank Country Current account balance 1 China $ 363,300,000,000 2 Japan $ 195,900,000,000 3 Germany $ 185,100,000,000 4 Saudi Arabia $ 88,890,000,000 5 Russia $ 74,000,000,000 6 Switzerland $ 67,890,000,000 7 Netherlands $ 59,280,000,000 8 Norway $ 55,820,000,000 9 Kuwait $ 51,490,000,000 10 Singapore $ 41,390,000,000 11 United Arab Emirates $ 36,110,000,000 12 Algeria $ […]

A child’s birthday party at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant was cut short after a fight broke out between two mothers. Natick police said the mom of the 9-year-old birthday boy apparently became enraged because the other woman’s son was “hogging” an arcade game. Sgt. Paul Thompson said Catherine Aliaga, 38, and Tarsha Williams, 33, […]

Apple has had their Aqua GUI interface for some time now. This is nothing new… But I’ve always been secretly mesmerized by the simplicity of the style. Almost like my fascination with flashing lights! In any case… I came across an image that made me want to brush up on my Photoshop skills (I’ve been […]

It was bound to happen… But this one wasn’t really planned. After 9 years working for Citi (Citicorp Mortgage, then CitiMortgage, then Citigroup, and then Citi… If you can keep them all straight!) – I’ve decided to change directions and take on a new opportunity with Hewlett-Packard (you can call them HP if you want…) […]

Tonight has had it’s fair share of newsworthy events… Not only did we get a pretty nice looking lunar eclipse (with a very clear sky in Saint Louis)… but it seems that our US government has successfully blown up an orbiting satellite in outer space. A missile launched from a Navy ship struck a dying […]

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This tidbit has been floating around for a little while… but I enjoy such broad ponderings… Like – what really is happening on other planets? The universe is awfully big just to think we’re the only “intelligent” creatures in it. As they said in the movie “Contact” – sure would be a big waste of […]

Since I was poking around in my computer BIOS over the last few days during a rebuild of my Dell desktop back and forth from Windows XP & Vista – I thought that I’d partake in a quick experiment to see exactly how much of a performance difference turning on or off Automatic Acoustic Management […]

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A new item to add to my want list… A simplistic, yet amazingly ingenious invention! Why didn’t anybody think about a Bic Pen utensil set before? One of the winners of the Dining in 2015 international design competition–co-organized by Design Boom and Macef, Italy, was ‘din-ink’ by Andrea Cingoli, Paolo Emilio Bellisario, Cristian Cellini & […]