Chess is a classic game that emphasizes the difference between tactics and strategy.  Strategy is the overall gameplan of what you intend to do to achieve success.  Tactics is the means of how you achieve that success.  Where a planner might deploy troops or initiate procedures in certain ways, it’s where the actual action takes [...]

It’s a troublesome nuisance to fumble through your wallet for your cash.  You got to open your coat or reach in your back pocket, pull it out, and show one and all where you not only keep your cash, but your credit cards and identification.  In this day and age, identity theft can destroy lives, [...]

The hallmark of our modern, western culture is the cellphone.  Just to think it wasn’t too long ago that we were all shackled to corded phones that did nothing else but call others and take calls.  Answering machines came out around the 1970s, which gave us all a way to screen calls, and call ID [...]

In modern warfare, apart from diseases and starvation, artillery has been the biggest killer.  Shrapnel causes more harm and death on the battlefield than bullets do because they’re often used to blanket entire areas of many square feet.  This is why one of the key skills modern soldiers learn how to do is dig.  They [...]

Working at an information technology department is a very tough job.  It’s like a constant spinning plate balancing act, where you’re constantly moving to keep the plates spinning in such a way so they don’t fall down to the floor and break.  Indeed, you have to balance security with user productivity and system maintenance, and [...]

There’s a lot to consider for the day of your wedding.  So many people want to be a part of your wedding party, but there’s only room for just a relative few.  Even so, each role in the wedding party is important to just give to someone who might be a bit irresponsible or just [...]

There is probably no better cocktail than the standard martini.  Simple, brisk, and smooth, the martini, if you don’t know, is served with chilled gin or vodka with an amount of vermouth poured into the distinctive martini glass with a garnish, often a green olive.  The variants of the martini mostly refer to the kind [...]

Have you noticed that business fashions for women seem rather, well, man-like?  It seems that in order to have a career, you have to dress professionally in a sense that eschews the polish and glitter in favor of straight lines, dark colors, and less jewelry.  We haven’t gone from eliminating earrings and bracelets, but in [...]