1) Tough Father
AskRecy Homepage Tough Father I have three three sons to my credit, ranging in age from 15 to 23 years old. They think I'm tough on them ... and they're right. People are sometimes impressed at how well my boys know their way around a computer, but I take thathttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask824.htm
2) The Houston 100
AskRecy Homepage The Houston 100 If you haven't had time to look over the Houston Chronicle's list of Houston's Top 100 businesses, take a look sometime. I looked it over, noted with pride that a number of the companies listed have been our clients, which confirms something I've known forhttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask609.htm
3) 1999
AskRecy Homepage 1999 Are you ready to wrap up the twentieth centuryNULL Can any of us tell what the upcoming year and the year beyond will bringNULL Of course not. All we can do is this: Try to learn the lessons of the past Do the best we can withhttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask1228.htm
4) A Natural Law
AskRecy Homepage A Natural Law It's been said that the penalty will always be death for the crime of Stupidity. That is true if you consider it as a natural law: the harshest punishment will always be doled out for committing Stupid acts. Some may consider that the President ishttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask1216.htm
5) Consider the Alternative
AskRecy Homepage Consider the Alternative One of Ask Recy's best Quote of the Day's is one from Maurice Chevalier: age is not so bad when you consider the It's funny how many of our complaints turn out to be blessings when we consider the alternatives. Have you ever heard ahttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask1130.htm
6) Happy Thanksgiving, Houston
AskRecy Homepage Happy Thanksgiving, Houston People in Houston will be lighting up with smiles this Thanksgiving over special holiday events around town. Bank United is sponsoring the traditional Thanksgiving Day Parade down Main Street at 9 am Thanksgiving Day. You can catch a sneak preview of the floats at thehttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask1123.htm
7) Keeping up with the Competition
AskRecy Homepage Keeping up with the Competition You've all heard the joke about the three most important things to succeed in retail: Location , location, location! Well, AskRecy predicts that some shops with no location at all will post record sales this holiday season. No, I'm not talking about mailhttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask1116.htm
8) Looking Big
AskRecy Homepage Looking Big Have you ever wondered why a cat will puff up his fur, arch his back and make that tail stand straight up when he's feeling threatened? They say that the cat is trying to look bigger to scare his adversary. Small businesses devote a lot ofhttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask1109.htm
9) A Cry for Unity
AskRecy Homepage A CRY FOR UNITY an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with thehttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask10599.htm
10) It's Cool
AskRecy Homepage It's Cool Well, the World Series is over, basketball season hasn't started, and the Oilers don't live here anymore. On the plus side, it's Fall, and there's a few weeks of very nice weather between the hot and the cold - if you get up off your couchhttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask1026.htm
11) Future Thinking
AskRecy Homepage Future Thinking When I was a kid, I wondered what life would be like in the year 2000. It seemed like it was an awfully long way away - it seemed like I'd be an old man by then (surprise - I'm not!). We saw movies and televisionhttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask1019.htm
12) Honors and Responsibilities
AskRecy Homepage Honors Responsibilities - That's not a phrase you hear very much anymore. Do you know what it means? It originally meant that noblemen, the lords of the land, had an obligation to the commoners. That was how society was run in ancient times, and a nobleman who knewhttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask1013.htm
13) Computer Fear
AskRecy Homepage Computer Fear One of the biggest user issues we have had to deal with in doing business from day to day is computer fear. Lots of people are convinced that if they strike a key without permission, the computer will blow up, or all the data will behttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask1005.htm
14) Do you know ..NULL
AskRecy Homepage Do you know..NULL Do you know that one of the best ways to protect yourself from a computer virus is simply to pop the diskette out of the diskette drive when you're through using it? This won't protect you from all viruses - you should have some goodhttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask1005a.htm
15) Grand Prix of Houston
AskRecy Homepage Grand Prix of Houston If you think nothing exciting ever happens around here, you need to head downtown October 2nd - 4th and see Indy cars tearing up the street to qualify for the Texaco Grand Prix of Houston. The big names in racing will be there, andhttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask0928.htm
16) Having a Cause ...
AskRecy Homepage Having a Cause... I notice that the Miss America Pageant now has every contestant adopt a cause that she's interested in promoting. Plenty of the young ladies already seemed to be involved in different causes anyway; a surprising number of ordinary people are. That's a pretty good ideahttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask0921.htm
17) R-E-S-P-E-C-T
AskRecy Homepage This week I am handing over the column to my webmaster, Aussie Meyer , to speak her piece - AskRecy R-E-S-P-E-C-T I watched the fireworks of Sky Power II from a friend's porch this weekend, and listened to the simulcast on the radio. Did you notice the selectionhttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask0914.htm
18) Back to the Basics
AskRecy Homepage Back to the Basics Have you ever watched a really entertaining commercial, the kind that must have cost hundreds of thousands to produce, and then realized you didn't know what product it was a commercial for? A lot of the time people put such an effort into makinghttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask0713.htm
19) Are you ready for Windows 98NULL
AskRecy Homepage Are you ready for Windows 98NULL Well, Windows 98 is out and inquiring minds want to know whether to rush out and buy it. Here's the scoop. First, unlike the Windows 95 debut, there's no big rush. You will not need to update immediately in order to runhttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask0706.htm
20) The business of business
AskRecy Homepage The business of business When I was in high school college, I never thought I'd be a computer programmer! I never would have guessed what an interesting field it could be. For example, I've never worked in the medical field, but I've helped to develop a new medicalhttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask0629.htm
21) Changing Ways
AskRecy Homepage Changing Ways The Houston Business Journal reports that Kroger is testing a new checkout system that will allow the customers to scan their own groceries - and virtually check themselves out. This might be a good idea, it's hard to say until you try it. It's being testedhttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask0803.htm
22) How to Take a Vacation Without Leaving Town
AskRecy Homepage How to Take a Vacation Without Leaving Town Fellow Houstonians, do you need a vacationNULL Is your workaday life getting boring and staleNULL Well, let AskRecy treat you to a vacation ... first you have to close your eyes and pretend - no, don't pretend that you're goinghttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask0727.htm
23) Year 2000 Commonsense Solutions
AskRecy Homepage Year 2000 Commonsense Solutions You'll hear a lot of hysteria about the upcoming Year 2000 crisis, with people talking about the airlines, the government, and the banks becoming paralyzed by the problem. Realistically, there will probably be problems in all those fields and many more besides, but we'llhttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask0816.htm
24) What you see isn't always what you get
AskRecy Homepage What you see isn't always what you get One of the challenges we face, both in developing software and in developing websites, is trying to test the product as a real user would. When we test software, we often take it around the office from one PC tohttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask0810.htm
25) Being your own Boss
AskRecy Homepage Being your own Boss I'm not the only person who left a successful corporate career early to be his own boss. There was (and continues to be) a whole movement of executives and professionals who strike out on their own, wanting to make their own decisions and seehttp://www.askrecy.com/archive/1999/ask0908.htm
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