There are retirees everywhere who don't want to stop working. I'm actually one of those boomers who likes keeping my career viable. There are some pretty cool resources on the Web for mature people like us who can add a lot to the productivity of a company. Give a look to a couple: YourEncore.com says it's "a network of retired and veteran scientists and engineers providing our clients with proven experience to help accelerate their pace of innovation. We are uniquely positioned to help our clients recover lost knowledge and to enable them to make remarkable connections to...

Almost all banks now offer bank online options for customers. This is a terrific time saver and truly helps keep better personal financial records. Pay your bills without stamps or envelopes, schedule them ahead of time, never worry about forgetting to mail a check. One big plus - if there's ever a question of a creditor not receiving a payment you generated, the bankhandles the whole prpoblem...you don't even make a phone call. Here's the short version of how to switch to online banking: Call your bank or go to their Web site to see how to...

Nintendo tells me "the game that launched a new generation of gamers is back. Based on the theories of neuroscientist Dr. Kawashima, Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day contains new activities to challenge a player’s gray matter." It's a fun-to-play series of brain training activities designed to give the brain a workout. Some experts say it can help keep memory vibrant and energetic. This new game for Nintendo systems had 15 activities and provides a quiz or test at the beginning to tell you how old your brain is. Then you get to watch brain age decrease as you...

Here are a few "geekly" platitudes that I thought were clever. Not sure where they came from, but they're worth a look: There's no place like http://www.home.com The Geek shall inherit the earth Windows will never cease Never bite off more than you can browse Give a child a fish and she will eat for a day, show her how to surf the net and she wont bother you for weeks. HR Manager to job candidate: "I...

Craigslist is an interesting concept, not without controversy. Craigslist premise is - you put things, anything from baseball cards to real estate or cars, from meet-up requests to job offers, into the classified list for any major metro area in the country, and you don't pay a fee. Any. Ever. It's free. Craigslist is locally specific. You go to the site, Craigslist.org, select the location you're interested in, and then choose the ad classification you want. Posting an ad is easy, and, theoretically, there are rules and remedies that take care of spammers. I've used Craisglist in Mississippi, Florida and Illinois. It's...

Here's the least intuitive blog entry I ever saw. From PRWeb.com comes a piece about how worried the powers that be are in Canada about the future of hiring tech people. Problem? Baby boomers will be retiring in large numbers. We all know that. But Canadian high tech companies are worried that the youngest boomers are starting to think about retirement. Who then, the companies ask, is going to be sitting at all those work benches figuring out how to get the technical stuff done? There aren't enough young people interested, or educated. People under 35 tend to stay at a job...

The nattering back and forth between major electronics retailers (the guys that sell televisions...) and the Feds (the guys that are trying to sort out the transition from analog broadcast TV to digital broadcast television) rages on. You probably read about the digital conversion subsidy coupons in my recent column Digital Television Conversion. In February, 2009, broadcast television signals will change, across the board, from analog (the kind older TV sets can receive) to digital television. Some television sets will not be able to receive programming after that date without a converter box. Now, according to a very informed tech news site,...