A memory from the past – the mug

I first met this mug a long, long time ago in a land far, far away.  It was the summer of 1973 and I was working for the Cook County Forest Preserve District in Tinley Park, Illinois.  Every weekday we would go out and clean up the picnic groves – picking up...

The desktop is dead

I do not know if this is really true but in my case I believe it has come time to transition away from these huge desktop machines.  Therefore it is my plan and goal to make this session the last time I build a desktop machine.   Here are some thoughts: They...

Too Much Information?

Upon reviewing the 7-part tutorial we have provided on the Persson Technologies website for our customers some might think we are giving away knowledge for free.  Won’t this allow people to create their own websites? While this might be partially true these...

Each journey begins with just one step

There was a time when I said I would never update my old ancient web pages to WordPress.  I have begun that journey now.  I just updated the home page of this website with new content, converted the “what’s new” page over to WordPress, and moved all...

Android emoticon test

I thought it would be cool to see if I can easily type the most common emoticons from my phone. Standard smile 🙂 Large smile 😀 Winking smile.  😉 Shocked   😮 Sad.  🙁 Okay,  it appears they all worked.  I need to update my WordPress blog entries to use this same method...