Berg Blog

After much coaxing by several people, I finally joined Facebook yesterday. Wow! Apparently everybody and their mom was already a member and I was really late to the party. I have family members, friends, classmates, and colleagues who have already joined or asked to join my friends list within the first 24 hours. MySpace had [...]

My writing still needs to be cleaned up, but I try to write properly using the rules I can remember from elementary and high school. Also, I’m trying to brush up on some grammar principles in an effort to prepare myself for teaching English. For those questions that are too confusing or complex to remember, [...]

I am re-reading John Maxwell’s book Today Matters. A review of the book will be coming, but suffice it to say it’s one of the most outstanding books I’ve ever read. In this spirit, I’m taking myself to task on daily habits or lack thereof.
Task managers and shopping lists are great for taking care of [...]

Having experienced computer failure and more recently theft, I cannot overemphasize how important it is to back up computer information–and in more than one place. Try out this top-notch, free online backup service from Mozy. You’ll get 2 GB of storage and the small program will back up your pictures, email, address book, Quicken, Word [...]

For all I know, this concept is over-marketed in the U.S. and everybody knows about it. But I just found out about the Getting Things Done (GTD) system by David Allen. I haven’t read the book as it’s not readily available here. But I like the concept. I enjoy how he explains how to break [...]

After having built my own computer and changed hardware several times, I had become very familiar with Windows. Too familiar. Too many viruses, blue screens of death, random crashes, and wondering what was going on. Too many times having to restart because my ram had drained down. Too many reinstallations of Windows because the system [...]