Mike McLoughlin's Blog

I’d rather be writing

Mike McLoughlin — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 08:14:28 -0800

That’s the comment my friend Len at NextReformation.com made when asked what he does for a living. It captures my sentiment as well. But the hard reality is that writing is something I do on the side, while I do other things to keep my family fed and people cared for at our family medical clinic.

So I’d rather be writing. But writing takes time and there never seems ...

The satisfaction of a job well done.

Mike McLoughlin — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 22:26:43 -0700

I spent the morning at our Medical clinic sorting out some computer glitches. I am not a computer expert, but I know my way around enough that I can usually troubleshoot simple networking problems or talk to a tech person and they can walk me through the solution. So I was able to get the problems fixed. Ah, the satisfaction there is in telling the staff their computers are fixed!

As ...

Pet Peeves

Mike McLoughlin — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:25:03 -0800

One of my pet peeves is that every advance in Internet Software technology seems to create higher levels of complexity which generally confuse most Internet users. For example, Adobe Acrobat recently came out with a nifty update to their PDF Internet browser that integrates with Internet Explorer. This udpate enables you to pull up a form and fill it out and submit it online. The problem is that the data ...