Better By a Mile

Is honesty really  the best policy?  Although it may call for a bit of tact from time to time, I believe the answer is "yes". Several years ago, a colleague (Bob) showed me the light.  I was complaining to Bob about one of his employees (John) missing an important deadline.  I assured Bob I had been following the issue closely, and that John had indeed made several mistakes that resulted in the missed deadline.  Bob's response was simple yet sincere: "Oh, ok, let me go get John so that we can talk about it."  I thought to myself: We? No, I wanted you  to talk to him .  I quickly stopped him and explained that I wasn't trying to cause a confrontation, and asked if he could talk to John privately.  He looked confused.  After a short pause, and with a bit of grace, he explained to me that it would be difficult for him to address John without me, since I claimed to have all of the facts about how it happened. He had a point.  Why...

I've been spending a bit of my free time lately trying to decide where to start with learning a computer programming language.  There are so many languages and resources available for learning them that the process has been quite overwhelming.  I recently stumbled upon a blog article which, regretfully, I cannot find again to quote here.  The article essentially said "It doesn't matter where you start...just START SOMEWHERE".  You might guess that another one of my interests has been to start a website; a blog, perhaps.  For a few hours this evening, I got lost in the seemingly limitless options of registrars, hosting services, and ancillary features.  After all, you'll probably come to know that I am always seeking the best value, and I research things...a lot. I've always loved the number 12.  It's my favorite number, and it is also the price of registering a domain with Google Domains.  I decided that I could always find the best Wordpress ho...