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I don’t worry about kids these days becoming so involved with social networks (Facebook, MySpace, etc.) and instant messaging (AIM, text messages, etc.) that they become isolated from real human contact. Why not? XKCD says it perfectly:
Long distance relationships are hard. IM can turn a friend down the street into a [...]
Do you remember all those pearls of wisdom that your mom uttered when you where a child? Of course not; you weren’t listening. (I’ll admit it: neither was I.) Some of what mom said was good, solid advice, though. Here is your chance to reclaim those lost gems without having to relive your childhood. Just [...]
It is almost never good when your locality is mentioned in the same sentence with Detroit.
USA Today’s article, City Council pays for lessons in civility, takes an in-depth look at acrimonious squabbling on the Ashland, OR city council and includes,
More recently, public fireworks have been reported on city and county panels [...]
It’s time to renew your Do Not Call listing and it’s even more important than renewing that library book which you lost but don’t want to pay an overdue fine for. According to Yahoo! News, Do Not Call listings aren’t forever
Numbers placed on the registry, begun in June 2003, are valid [...]
Spam disgusts me. It has rendered free email, one of the most heartfelt examples of human cooperation, completely untenable.
I have been relying on email, for business and personal connections, since I worked at TRW in 1980. I used to run a medium-sized UUCP hub at FileNet in Orange County, CA on a VAX 750 [...]
Unless you live under a rock or have never used the web for research, you are almost certainly aware of the ongoing debate over the veracity of Wikipedia vs. the traditional encyclopedias such as Britannica and World Book. On the one hand, Wikipedia supporters point to the breadth and [...]
I seem to be an internet omnivore, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project
Omnivores make up 8% of the American public.
Members of this group use their extensive suite of technology tools to do an enormous range of things online, on the go, and with their cell phones. Omnivores [...]
When I say, “Documentation,” how do you react? Probably with one of these: Bleh. A drag. Who reads it? The code is self documenting. Or my favorite: It’s intuitively obvious to the most casual observer.
This morning, I ran across Slashdot’s article, Five AJAX Frameworks Reviewed
We have all seen them: web sites that have great stuff on them but which look like they were designed by a trash compactor. Mark Daoust of SiteReference delves into them in his posting, The Surprising Truth About Ugly Websites.
He makes some good points, in particular that some target audiences [...]
My friend Alyce wrote, “I’ve recently come to the conclusion that letting people meet me, and feel my energy, is probably a far more effective selling tool than….” I could not agree more.
I am a techie and, when Candy and I started our first business, all I wanted to do was the [...]
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