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Tonight hurricane Ida is barreling down the Gulf to hit one of the southern states – Louisiana for now – Sunday afternoon. Tonight is going to be a sleepless night as I worry where the hurricane will hit. When I was growing up, we would get warnings of level 1 or 2 hurricanes and those…

I’m working on some program to try to see which files I want to keep and which I can ditch, so this post will be short. There is so much bad news in the world. Afghanistan Tragedy The news coming out of there is just so distressing. People who rely on very stridently on religious…

Just a quick post tonight in response to the news of the verdict last night. I’m relieved the verdict came out the way it did. From all appearances, and I’m not an expert in law nor did I follow every detail of the case, but the video (well, I actually didn’t see the video but…

I’m still working on replacing the data from the Covid Tracking Project with data from the CDC and I have made some progress. And I learned something new. But I didn’t have time to develop anything for tonight’s post so this one will be a short one on some other topic that I feel compelled…

Last night as I was updating my coronavirus data, I learned that March 7 was to be the last day for the Covid Tracking Project. Man, that was a shocker. Although, as I thought about it, it is not surprising. The Covid Tracking Project was a volunteer project hosted by The Atlantic news media. According…

There’s a lot of talk about the need to be creative in business in this new world that we are entering. One of the skills you got to have is to be “creative”. I would imagine that a lot of people, when they think of creativity, they think of artists, musicians, actors – that kind…