Microsoft Project 2010 is arguably the best project management application out there. I regularly brush with it, see its efficacy, try to use it but will sooner later get confused by gantt charts and how they can be setup. I always seem to spend a lot of time trying to create a Project before completely …

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I haven’t enjoyed a decent blog rant for some time so… nothing technical in this blog but lots of blowing off steam 🙂 There is a disturbing trend of anti-intellectual elitism in 2019 American culture: the flippant dismissal of science, the decline of arts and humanities. Critical thinking is being replaced by entertainment, self-righteousness, ignorance, …

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Dad, Why didn’t you go to College? Here in America, everyone goes! I mean EVERYONE! Was it that different in England? My Eldest Son And since I cant think of anything sensible to blog about… I might as well answer your question, Nate. And also talk about our families wanderlust. So this blog is for …

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This morning I awoke to find an email from a digital blackmailer. This email shows one of my commonly used login email accounts plus one of my more commonly used password. Yikes! My password information has been leaked from somewhere! I’ve received several email just like this over recent weeks. Each time it shows my …

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What’s new, Ubuntu 18.04 Linux? The biggest change is heralded as the switch from the traditional Ubuntu UNITY DESKTOP in favour of GNOME. I was a little nervous about what i was going to see when I upgraded my trusty old Thinkpad W700 from Ubuntu 17 to Ubuntu 18. But, surprise surprise, the desktop looks …

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Leaving this Green and Pleasant land I lived the first forty years of my life in Southern England. A happy and traditional English childhood growing up in the Home Counties. Dad in the Army, Mum a housewife, grandparents for Sunday Lunch every weekend, two dogs and a thoroughly irritating little brother 😉 Growing up in …

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Hands up and stand away from the keyboard. It’s time for a thinking day. Do a little less for one day might mean doing far more for many more…. It’s not often I blog about somebody elses blog… is that Blogging2? Yesterday, I read this excellent article by John Donahoe, previous CEO of Ebay. Published …

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+Happy New Year 2018. One of my new years resolutions was to write cleaner code, and in the spirit of out with the old and in with the new… I already use the RPG COPYRIGHT statement and the CL COPYRIGHT STATEMENT to store the copyright message and (more importantly to me) the Version or Release number …

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Bailey Litten – English Springer Spaniel Bailey Version 2.0 – He’s my wing man and constant companion. He never nags, never complains and is always thrilled to see me whether I have left him alone for a minute or for a day. To test if your dog loves you more than your wife – trying locking …

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But before I waffle about the Litten Family Crest, let’s talk about this blog entry — a few years ago, I decided to start researching my family name “Litten”. I dug around on the interwebs, found lots of interesting stuff and lots of random guff, wrote most of this blog, then clicked SAVE AS DRAFT, …

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How do we set the IBM i RDi Dark Theme? I’m getting old — 50 earlier this year — and my eyesight is failing. Seriously, I bought some of those old man reading glasses from Walmart. You know the ones, the “old people” ones! 🙂   Five bucks for a little old Victorian style pair of …

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So, I’ve been stateside for a few years now. I’m still very English (British by Birth, English by the Grace of God) and nothing beats a nice cuppa tea and a crisp biscuit for dunking. Tea is hot, never iced. Bacon Sarnies only come with brown sauce and white bread. You can shove all that …

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