For a year or so, I used an online data storage system. I uploaded copies of all my writing (books, articles, blog posts) and all my financial data faithfully. But in the back of my mind, I always wondered if that was a good idea or a bad one.
The advantage is your ability […]
A couple of weeks ago I ran several posts on keeping mentally fit. Someone must have read them, because a company called vibrantBrains now has come up with brain gyms. Well, why not? The gym is billed as “a workout centre for the brain” and their slogan is “-
Where the Sweat is […]
On April 28th Eureka Ranch Technology Ltd. will launch a registry site where researchers and inventors can post their ideas. The site is planeteureka.com. The purpose of the site is to offer innovations to people and companies who can develop posted ideas into marketable products.
The reasoning is that small businesses don’t have much money for research and […]
Recently a web site, roommates.com got slapped down by the courts for discriminatory practices, see http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1207219563829for a discussion of the decision. People are all in a snit about the liability of the hosting website. People need to get their heads on straight. You cannot do something on the Internet that is illegal in the real world and expect that […]
I have a programmable thermostat in my house. It’s just outside my bedroom door. In the morning, when I get up I turn the temperature up (or down depending on the time of the year). I do the opposite when I go to bed or leave the house. It is more difficult to do that […]
Bad things happen to everyone all the time. If they start happening regularly then something more fundamental is wrong. For example, computer outages occur. Computer operations are a highly complex arrangement of resources. Any of the pieces can fail from time to time causing a major problem. Nevertheless, when a major problem arises management needs […]
The last few days I have been having Internet problems - s…l…o…w… to the extreme - losing packets, timing out. Pure frustration.
It made me think about Jim’s post about retirement and loneliness. We depend on the Internet so much for our connections to the world around us, that when it is slowed or […]
I’m fed up with the PC; well, not the generic PC, but just the one that Microsoft has crammed down our throats. I need a new laptop but I refuse to buy a PC because I refuse to be forced to have Vista on it. I understand that I would not even have […]
You have probably heard that analog TV will be “whited out” (so to speak) in February 2009. On February 17, if you haven’t switched to digital, all you will see is static. Although that might be preferable to some of the stuff on TV today. If you are not ready (or you don’t […]
GOOGLE founder Sergei Brin recently was asked in CNN Money how to succeed this year. He said, “Success will come from simplicity.”
I treasure simplicity; the simpler things are, the better I like them. Life is so cluttered that the more we can un-clutter it, the better. Sergei Brin says that technology […]
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