My cousin posted on Facebook that she wants to buy a new pocket camera. She asked an open question about which brands are best, which models she would want, and the biggest challenge, she wants to keep the purchase price below $200.

I told her that I love my camera. It’s a Sony and it takes great photos with almost everything automatic. The battery lasts a long time, the memory stick holds a ton of photos, the zoom is 7x, and it has a huge display screen.

But she bought a cheap Canon. I guess you just can’t help some people.

Like I advised everyone yesterday, I set all my clocks ahead an hour for Daylight Savings Time. But today I see that my cell phone has not changed. Why doesn’t AT&T handle this change in a timely manner – no pun intended!?!? I know that when I travel back to DC the cell phone changes to Eastern Time automatically as soon as I get near Knoxville. So why can’t AT&T set my phone one hour ahead?

Wow – I have to upgrade my WordPress again. This is awful. I can’t do it myself, I have to pay my system administrator to take the time to back up my blog and then install the update. I didn’t realize that there would be so many updates in a year. I thought it would be a once a year type of thing. But this is the fifth one this year. That’s putting me out of pocket over $100 for a supposedly free program.

Today I was cleaning out a couple of drawers in the office. Well, I was looking for a bottle of glue and couldn’t find it, so I had to clean out the drawer while digging through the mess looking for the glue.

In the back of the drawer was a ziploc bag with a bunch of old, empty inkjet cartridges for that broken Epson printer that I used to use. I hated that printer – you had to have 6 different color ink cartridges to get the colors to print. If you ran low on any one of the 6 colors, the printer wouldn’t work at all until you replaced the one cartridge. You couldn’t even bypass the colors and use just black.

It was a total nuisance trying to keep up with all those ink cartridges. Now I have a big bag of the empty and I guess I will find someplace to recycle them.

I was reading the Duke University publication today. They have an article about the longevity of some of their professors.

Professor Strandberg is one of their faculty members who have taught at Duke  University for over 40 years.

Their Professor of Economics, Craufurd Goodwin, and their Professor of Chemistry, James Bonk, have both been there longer than Prof. Strandberg.

Prof. Goodwin has been the University for 54 years.