Cheerful Curmudgeon
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Quick rant on misuse of the English language.
Neither “incent” nor “incentivise” are words. “Motivate” is a word. There is no verb form of “incentive.”
I am not surprised, but I am still dismayed, by the continued erosion of our personal privacy in the shadow of George W. Bush’s administration. The New York Times reports in E-Mail Surveillance Renews Concerns in Congress that the National Security Agency (NSA), as recently as early this year, is illegally collecting email [...]
I woke up in a good mood this morning and then…
Sometimes one piece of technology makes another, seemingly unrelated, piece of technology misbehave. It happened this morning at 12:15am CDT when an automated program that I run in Amazon EC2 failed to do its thing. The EC2 instances (that’s geek speak for “virtual machines” [...]
IE6: Get Over It
By Art Zemon On March 9, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Business, Communicating, Internet, Rants & Raves, Recommendations
I am fed up with wasting clients’ dollars “fixing” web sites so that they look good in Internet Explorer 6. IE7 has been out for 2 1/2 years. IE8 is available as a free beta. There are lots of other browsers available for free. All of these browsers work better than IE6. If you still [...]
I published my family tree on-line so that other family members and genealogists would have easy access. I never imagined that it would turn into a way to find long lost friends. I just received this email message:
A friend of mine from college was looking for me. So, he googled my family [...]
Google Chrome to Replace Microsoft Windows, Apple OSX, and Linux
By Art Zemon On September 2, 2008 · 12 Comments · In Business, Communicating, Internet, Recommendations, Software, Technology
Google released Chrome today and you will see “Google Chrome is a browser” if you visit the Chrome web page. Do not be deceived, though. Chrome is not designed to replace Internet Explorer or Firefox or Safari. Chrome is designed to replace your operating system and virtually all of the software that you [...]
Sometimes the words just won’t come. What’s a blogger to do? I have a little confession to make: I turn to the Lazy Bloggers’ Post Generator. After you read this latest sample of it’s output, I’ll bet you’ll agree that you can’t tell the difference between what the Post Generator creates and my [...]
Technology is challenging enough when we really know what is going on. The situation deteriorates rapidly as we progress through only thinking we know what is going on to being completely clueless. My step-mother just started using a computer, the first computer that has been solely hers, the first one where she can do whatever [...]
Thanks to Jeremy Zawodny for drawing my attention to Clay Shirky’s talk on the cognitive surplus. Shirky makes some excellent points. Give it 17 minutes of your time and watch. My comments follow.
I agree with Shirky, we like to do more than we like to watch. That’s why it was so [...]
I run my company using OpenOffice.org instead of Microsoft Office. It does everything we need and costs a whopping $0.00; not a bad deal for a small business. To be more specific, OpenOffice.org
Gives us word processor and spreadsheet programs that more than handle our documentation needs, Allows us to open Word and [...]
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