Archive for 'Technology'

A Word on Posting in Tech Forums

In my current job, I’m having to learn about the language Python so I am once in a while forced to go onto forums or read forums as a result of a google search to figure out the ins and outs of the language.  I dread doing this because people just become real idiots on [...]

A World Without Microsoft

This will be my last (solely) Microsoft-hating/bashing blog for a while, I promise.  A few years ago, Alan Weisman wrote a book about what would happen if mankind suddenly disappeared.  With my previous blog entry, it got me to start thinking.  Microsoft has really gone off it’s meds.  A number of things have happened recently [...]

Time to Poke M$ With a Stick

Hey.  I’m back.  Did I miss anything?
Now that I am solidly in place at my new job, I feel I can take the opportunity to burn some bridges and take some loving (or not-so-loving) swipes at our good friends at Microsoft.  For those of you who don’t know, I had an interview with [...]

I Made the Front Page of del.icio.us!

A while back I posted some forum messages to the Prelinger Archive about reviving the September 11 Television Archive.  It was a website that was developed very shortly after 9/11 and included all of the television coverage for 9/11-9/13 for FOX, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, and other networks.  It disappeared in 2002-2003 and I was [...]

Banking Reviews and How to Improve Online Reviews

Good lord.  I’m trying to set up a new way of banking for Jess and myself for once we get married.  I’m wanting to work with a bank with good online banking services and yet still have branches nearby.  Wachovia seemed a reasonable choice.  I looked online for reviews and I found several sites where [...]

An Appeal to Digg.com Regarding The Onion

I love Digg.  It’s a place where I can get a quick view of what is going on in the world politically, socially, and technologically, all of which is driven by a polling system that determines what is important and what isn’t so I don’t have to.  I also like The Onion…once in a while.  [...]

“I Can Make Glass Tubes”

I read an article today about MIT’s new energy initiative that is giving researchers free reign to develop solutions to the problems dealing with solar energy.  With all of the power problems the world is facing in the next 20 years, these researchers working on alternative power supplies could end up being the same as [...]

Faceboogle? How Social Networking Makes Web Searching Obsolete

Of all places, Popular Mechanics published an article about the fact that Social Networking is killing web search. The article was, in my mind, not as “deep” as it could have been but sparked a good blog idea. The article reads as though incorporating Web 2.0 social-based content is more about adding social [...]

You Just Can’t F*&#ing Please Anyone

You get two posts tonight ’cause I just ran across this article.  I just…I mean…I can’t…can you believe…do you follow…Gah!  I’m not going to make any commentary on this article because anyone that has a lick of sense or knows me at all can write the rest of the post yourself. 
You know what?  I [...]

Is Tom Cruise Really That Bad?

I’ve been keeping track of the internet phenomenon (is that what we’ll call it?) of the war against Scientology by Anonymous/Project Chanology.  If nothing else, it’s good for a laugh every now and then.  The Anonymous youtube videos are fun to watch.  However, I think that it does introduce some interesting questions about both what [...]

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