by Jeffery Battersby | Aug 6, 2007 | Commentary, Wanders, Writing
Lead us to the Wright stuff We’re just back from the high peaks region of the Adirondacks putting a period on a two week long vacation that has taken us from Washington D.C. to Weirton, WV, Niagara Falls, Canada, and finally Lake Placid, NY. Sounds like a crazy...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jul 14, 2007 | Commentary, HousePosts, Writing
Or a misguided fear of a dangerous mind… I was intrigued (or maybe that’s incensed) recently by an essay in Newsweek about The Dangerous Book for Boys—an Amazon bestseller and a book that my nine-year-old son, since receiving it for his birthday less...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jul 12, 2007 | Commentary, Wanders, Writing
Where four days and three nights equal one wonderfully long vacation… Saturday morning we packed the car, put the canoe on top and headed to Lake George in the southern part of New York’s Adirondack Park. Four hours later… Wow! Waltonian Island is...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jun 28, 2007 | Commentary, HousePosts, Macworld, Writing
Buying the iPhone? Not quite yet… Tomorrow at 6:00 EST marks the release of the long awaited, much ballyhooed Apple iPhone. I along with my friend Bill Jackson will be blogging live from the Apple Store in Danbury, CT starting at about 4:00 PM EST. You can...
by Jeffery Battersby | May 31, 2007 | Commentary, HousePosts
Keep me away… So, spring has sprung and along with spring also comes the inevitable equation: 2(sports) + 3(kids)=0(time). Around this neck of the woods we do spring cleaning sometime in July. And house projects get put on hold indefinitely. Fortunately, the...
by Jeffery Battersby | Apr 3, 2007 | Commentary, Macworld, Writing
Or, why I still won’t allow my wife to make a list of things for me to do… For the last couple of days I’ve been working on a review of a program that implements David Allen’s Getting Things Done techniques using your Macintosh. Now, I have to...