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My site was down. Worse, Ask Leo! (askleo.com) was, instead of displaying its content, displaying sensitive configuration information including the username and password to the master database. And even worse … I was out of the office, running errands.

Everytime I get sick, or hurt myself — which fortunately isn’t that often for either — I end up reminding myself to be grateful for my generally good health when I’m feeling better. Then, of course, I completely forget as the fog or pain or whatever lifts and I go on living my life. I’m […]

When you’re a “solopreneur”, as it’s now refered to — an individual working for yourself, especially online – you can look at each week either of two ways: Every day is a potential day of work. Weekends are nothing special; they’re just another couple of days. Every day is a potential day off. Weekdays are […]

Today marks the half-way point in my “60 Days of Gratitude” project. If you’re slogging through with me in this little exercise … well, I’m grateful you’re here. 🙂 Today, I’m also grateful for the grateful. Let me explain…

Pictured above is Dagmar. She’s a 13+ year old Cardigan Welsh Corgi. Dagmar has lymphoma, a type of cancer. What makes Dagmar remarkable is that as I write this she’s been in remission for well over a year and a half. Later this year we’ll celebrate two years since diagnosis. That’s well above average, and […]

We have, today, available at our fingertips a wealth of knowledge that was unthinkable just a few decades ago. While it’s not exactly as he originally envisioned it, Bill Gates’ “Information At Your Fingertips” has come to pass in ways that most of us would never have considered 20 years ago. And yet we take […]

In 2001 I was invited to join a mastermind group of online internet entrepreneurs. Doing so changed my life.

One of the greatest gifts my parents ever gave me was power of attorney. I know, it doesn’t sound particularly romantic, or fun, or even special, but I can tell you that it was incredibly pragmatic and saved me no end of trouble when I finally needed it.

The older  get the more I come to realize that education isn’t a state, it’s a process. You’re never done; it’s a life-long process. I believe that many people — perhaps even most — take their education for granted, and as a result fail to take advantage of the many opportunities available. Certainly those who […]

Our neighbor had … issues. That’s really the only way to put it. It was our first home, back in Mountlake Terrace in the early 1980’s. We’d occasionally hear her holding what I can only describe as on-person religious revivals in her back yard. She accused us of somehow influencing our cats, as well as […]