Lately, I’ve been thinking about the San Francisco police detective character played by Clint Eastwood in the Dirty Harry movies. Harry Callahan is someone who does not hesitate to cross boundaries in pursuit of justice, especially when it is clear that justice is poorly served by the law and a flawed system. It’s fantastic to [...]

                        
Some days I just don’t get it. I don’t think I expect bells and whistles when I go to a restaurant, but I’m amazed how people behave. I often think, that must be the owner, otherwise they would be fired! Or how come they don’t say hello.
An event occurred yesterday that made me shudder. I downloaded a [...]

                     
The inverted V-shaped pattern of the Chevron has been around for centuries. The ancient Greeks used the geometric pattern on pottery, and the military uses it to indicate rank or level of service. But over the past few years, the Chevron has been recreated in the design and fashion industry. It has taken on [...]

More people are doing more with less, time is crunched, and you just don’t want get stuck in a sales pitch. So you make excuses or delay the inevitable with a white lie or a stall tactic.
“Let’s talk about this after the first quarter when we will have a better handle on our business plan.”
“Can’t [...]

    
In their most narrow sense, niches are the professed specialization areas marketing experts tell us to pursue. Like a well-trodden path, is it singularly bound with little perspective. Enter the architectural niche, it’s almost forgotten cousin. While indeed also a focus point, the niche is hardly limited in its imaginative appeal. Rather, it is a destination mark, [...]

For years my wife rebuffed my iPhone advances with the insurmountable “I like a physical keyboard” response. Only recently when her HTC EVO Shift stopped functioning did she face the truth that the only physical keyboard being produced was on Blackberry devices, and she had left those years before for Android. She has since settled on [...]

Sadly, it seems boomers, like me, are shying away from those markers that date them for fear of hurting their own marketability. I get it. You want to be with it and on trend. You don’t want your age to have an impact on your chances for career opportunities. Still, you shouldn’t be ashamed to [...]

The other day I was driving on a major highway and noticed a billboard on my right. I don’t slow down for billboards, unless I’m planning on being the accident of the day, but this one made me laugh. I decided to get off at the exit and make a second pass at it.
The billboard was [...]

I have a lot of friends and colleagues ask me what I have on my iPad. They all know that I am a “technology nerd” and am always looking out for the next best app to help me be more productive or have one of those “that’s cool” moments. So, here are my top 5 apps [...]

  
By not intruding onto valuable floor space, BUILT-IN CABINETRY is a perfect space saver. Because they are built-in, these cabinets are recessive and, thus, inconspicuous. In effect, they are part wall, part furniture. As an extension of the walls to which they are connected, built in cabinets have doors and drawers, tops and bottoms. They are generally ‘quiet’ [...]