Tales from the Techside

About 25 years ago I joked to some friends that human bipedal locomotion - walking, was nearly a thing of the past. I went so far as to suggest that legs could largely become vestigial appendages. Now I was 12 at the time, so very few of my friends knew what an appendage […]

I just wanted to say that I am back from my posting vacation as I have finally finished my final class and have completed my degree. This final class, along with my work responsibilities left me no time to post to the blog so I want to thank Michael Seguin for picking up the slack […]

I think I have been hearing about this moment for almost 20 years now. “What will happen when the baby boomer generation retires?” The question was generally asked within the broader context of social security reform. Today the first baby boomer applied for social security. 60 million more boomers stand behind […]

I have made my rounds at the conferences advocating MLS agnostic technology. I still do. I firmly believe that the future will see more and more tools, widgets and technologies developed that interface with MLS(s) but are not dependent on or tied to a particular MLS… they are MLS Agnostic. The […]

So your newish neighber sleeps all day and makes noise at absurd hours in the am. Of course you have shared your frustration with your family and friends, but that still leaves you feeling frustrated and needing some kind of closure. A quick search reveals that there is a user-contributed content website (lets […]

Sometimes I like to check out new real estate business models and occasionally when one catches my eye I will share it here. This is not meant to be an endorsement of a service just that I found the concept interesting and I believe it may have a broader appeal.
Pedal To Properties has come up […]

Love it or hate it Office 2007 is getting more and more popular which is fine except with 2007 Microsoft introduced a new file format. It seems that every day I get a question from a member or friend of what do with these docx or xlsx files. The good news is that Microsoft has […]

As some of you may have noticed I have not posted for the last week. Part of the reason is personal, I am facing my final class for my degree and it is taking more time then normal partially due to workload and partially due to paperwork involved in getting my ducks in a row […]

During my ‘digital life’ as I have worked and grown with technology I have seen a number of interesting things happen, ‘quantum leaps’ in thought and implementation. Yet certain puzzles within technology, certain ‘debates’ still rage and always will. My personal favorite is local vs central, or thick vs thin client, or centralized […]