Year: 2004

  • The early bird

    Microsoft is not being caught napping this time.  They’re out to catch the jerk who wrote the Sasser worm, and they’re working with the FBI and Secret Service to do it (although I’m not sure why the Secret Service is interested).They have a $5 million reward fund in abeyance too, though they haven’t yet put…

  • You are looking at the problem

    It only takes one person to change your life—you.Ruth Casey

  • Quit looking around for it

    The seed of God is in us.  Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God seeds into God.Meister Eckhart

  • There is a big difference between service & serve

    At one time in my life, I thought I had a handle on the meaning of the word “service.”“The act of doing things for other people.”Then I heard the terms: Internal Revenue ServicePostal ServiceTelephone ServiceCivil ServiceCity/County Public ServiceCustomer ServiceService StationsAnd I became confused about the word “service.”  This is not what I thought “service” meant.Then…

  • Think, think, think

    Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.  It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy.  You cannot try to do things.  You simply must do things.Ray Bradbury

  • Is it possible?

    While mowing the lawn last evening, a thought occured to me that maybe AA should adopt the following motto:Many will enter, few will win.It seems to work for all the contests I hear on the television when they try to suck the kids in to entering some sweepstakes.I see so many people come and go…

  • Live for today

    Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.Charles Lindbergh