There really is no excuse any more for buggy manuals, difficult software and substandard interfaces in consumer products. A pox on all the game-rattled software engineers who spent their youth playing fantasy role playing games. I don’t want to become a Ninja Master to listen to some music.
I was excited to find a [...]

I live in an area with frequent brownouts and power outages, and even with a UPS on the system, I seem to go through hard drives every few years. The last time I was wholly unprepared, without a recent backup. Worse, I had accumulated hundreds of digital photos that are now lost to [...]

Many of you know I transitioned from the gas appliance manufacturing sector to a high tech manufacturer of superconducting RF filters used in the cellular communications arena. I find my “boiler guys” contacts woefully inadequate at helping me find new employees now, but I am looking for a Sr. Tech Support Engineer, field based [...]

I’m returning to a simplified approach to web page design, especially when trying to get sites indexed by the search engines (mainly Google, because where Google goes, the others follow).
But first things first:
The title tag is always important, not because of search engines, but because of readers. And designing for readers first [...]

VW has a promising technology about to hit the north American market, a clean burning, high mileage diesel Jetta. Diesel has been used in Europe to eake out more fuel economy, but their standards for pollutants are much less stringent. The Japanese car makers have captured the “high concept” fuel sipper market with [...]