To follow up on my first response. My wife and I did over the years of OUR careers actually invest in 529 plans for five grandchildren.  The benefits of these...

No way in hell!  More unpaid education loans.  Sounds like a great way to divide families and lose friends. Should have saved this for April Fool's Day.

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No, thanks.  Next time you go to your doctor, just picture him looking through all the crap some kid like Sam Bankman-Fried sitting in his basement at the computer wrote...

Once in my career I switched commpanies and started an IT operation totally using IBM systems and a new language, then two years later guided the decision to change the...

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This may be the most unusual life-planning story you have ever heard.  My wife handles most of our appointment scheduling and social planning, especially while we are riding around town...

Steve, I do really appreciate your thoughts on use of our time wisely and add my encouragement to you all to do exactly that.  My wife and I are in...

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Good enough can truely get you in a fix.  I have an access database in the old .mdb version and an application on an old Win 7 machine that I...

At a certain point it becomes a question of effort vs reward.  How many things is it worth trying to parameterize that will almost certainly never be used?  Does...

Had a laugh that was 'good enough'  last week.  I bought an item at a local business, and got home to find an email receipt issued by an account called...

At the risk of 'negative feedback' I'll add that after a couple years, I still get the error rejecting my first post effort with "Did you really mean to do...

Another adage: The first idea is not usually the best one.  The problem is really bad in large installations with ranks of project managers, QC people with their management, and...

One of my wife's web site consultants ussed to say: "Done right is good.  Done is better".   I don't think that is all ways the case, but it made her...

Just a dumb question about this.  How do we know this software is not collecting info and sending it to the creator?

My most unpopular comment on meetings was:

"If a meeting involves more than three people or lasts more than ten minutes, you are wasting someone's time".

When I returned to my old...

Digital world remaking the analog world.

My most memorable episode of this was in 1974 when I became the new IT manager for a large food and supply distributor who was...