The MyMac.com Last Minute Holiday Gift Guide
Read MoreAuthor: Beth Lock
Random Thoughts
I think Congress should establish the Department of Homeland Insecurity, and put me in charge. Every day I would go to work and people
Read MoreThe Greatest Macintosh Application of All Time
When the gang at My Mac Online came up with the idea of a collective article on what we thought was the most outstanding Macintosh application, the suggestions grew faster than the offspring of procreating rabbits.
Read MoreJane Bland, Episode 7
Jane Bland, Spam Magnet 2,000-year-old bread recipe will MAKE me lose weight! In addition, I will JUMBO size my PENIS and increase my ejaculation by 666% while my incredible two-week business opportunity makes me thousands of dollars.
Read MoreFor Rodney
Rodney Lain owes me $20. It is a debt I will never be able to collect. Rodney incurred this debt to me when we finally met in person, at the Author’s Party at MacWorld 2000 in San Francisco.
Read MoreBlogging
Dear Diary. When I was a child I kept a diary, one of those kind that had the little locking tab on the front with the teeny tiny key. In it I recorded my pre-adolescent fantasies about Richard Duvall and Mike Nichols, the atrocities committed upon me by my two sisters, and anger at my parents.
Read MoreMYOB FirstEdge
Review
Less is more, so the old saying goes. MYOB takes a forward step backward with their new accounting program FirstEdge, which gives small business owners and entrepreneurs a piece of workable software that is not bloatware.
Read MoreJane Bland, Episode 6
My brain hurts, and I am tired. In the aftermath of the event (what will we end up calling it, because it has no fancy name yet; the horror? the destruction? September 11? the terrorist act?) my brain has frozen. Words cannot be formed, my opinions change daily.
Read Morea la recherche du temps perdu
Me and the rest of the old fogies here at the home were surely glad in this year of the lord 2017 that we had befriended those lost young millionaires back at the first of the century.
Read MoreI Married a Mac Man
In my younger, less enlightened years, I was one of those people who would shun the pocket protector, pimply type young man as one not worthy of my free-spirited, braless and pantiless existence.
Read MoreJane Bland, Episode 5
Man, I gotta get myself off that Maternity Mall mailing list.
Read MoreThe Birth of Oh! Ess Ten
As gestations go, this one was the lengthiest in the history of the Macintosh world. 15 months from the announcement of conception, to birth.
Read MoreJane Bland, Episode 4: Raising Men
I wasn’t the best mother in the world, I’ll admit. My maternal instinct didn’t come easy. I didn’t choose the traditional method for having children; husband, mortgage, dual-income.
Read MoreMYOB AccountEdge
Review
For most people, January is a dull month filled with after-holiday blues, lethargic weekends and weight loss programs.
Read MoreThe Architects of War
Rarely do I talk about politics in a public forum. There are several reasons for this. One reason is that regardless of how people
Read MoreComparison and other things
Comparison CKS was complaining about gasoline prices. Well, here is a comparison If you want to get really scared about the Bush administration, visit
Read MoreJane Bland, Episode 3: The Jetsons, Unlimited Credit, Catalogs, and Death. Merry Christmas!
I was getting a little pissy the other day because here it is, almost the year 2001 and I’m still not living like the Jetsons. Where’s my Rosie the Maid, my AirCar and my Automatic Dressing Machine? Sheesh…
Read MoreJane Bland, Episode 2: The Thanksgiving Sale, Nude Sprinkler Dancing, and Hating Turkey
I live in Utah, or as I so fondly think of it, as Stepford. There are God cages on every corner and Sundays are pleasant and peaceful because most of the neighbors are in church for three hours, giving testimony and crying and studying scriptures.
Read MoreJane Bland: Episode 1: OSHA, Breasts, and Fed-Ex!
Well, it was just another boring week. Get up, go to work, log on, do the usual.
Read MoreDisaster Struck, But All Is Well.
I was at work, minding my own business over by the copy machine when my boss asked me where the checkbook was. (I get to write them, he has to sign them. )
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