Category: Opinion

The Way to a Womans Heart is Through Electronics? | Industry study recommends consumer electronics as Valentines Day presents for women | LiveScience – StumbleUpon

 

English: iPads can be a distraction to learning
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The Way to a Womans Heart is Through Electronics? | Industry study recommends consumer electronics as Valentines Day presents for women | LiveScience – StumbleUpon. I have seen this in my life. The women in my life seem to prefer iPhones, iPads and other devices like that. It makes it pretty easy to prove keeping up when you can buy one for your spouse as well doesn’t it? “But honey, we both need Siri!”

Dramatic fixing of wireless networking

McSweeney. This is fun to read if you like long, rambling diatribes.

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Against the Smartphone Thinness Fetish – Robert Wright – Technology – The Atlantic

 

 

#43 - audrey hepburnAgainst the Smartphone Thinness Fetish – Robert Wright – Technology – The Atlantic. I guess that functionality does win over form after all. I don’t see this any different from how society tells us we should view women. If our women are thin, why not our technology? Is more gained or lost in wanting to be thin? In many ways being thin can work against women such as heavier women surviving surgeries better. Perhaps we need to not apply such broad brushstrokes of want in our lives.

The Do’s & Don’t of Tech Support

 

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The Dos. This is kind of funny. I wonder if everyone gets stressed about computer people helping them. It must be if people are taking the time to write lists like this.

Avoid the 10.7.3 update if you can

I did the 10.7.3 update and since I have made that mistake, my mac has been unstable. It has failed to wake from sleep, it has crashed webpages, it has slowed browsing down to 56k speeds including breaking Zemanta and I bet if I tried to play Civ 5 it would crash that as well. I am downloading the 10.7.3 combo here and will update this after a few days.

Yikes! What a mess. It seems to cause problems with Wacom tablets as well. No solution here. It would be fun to have one of these.

Bus company boss gives millions to staff – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) – StumbleUpon

 

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Bus company boss gives millions to staff – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) – StumbleUpon. This is incredible. Can you imagine coming to work and getting a $100k bonus? What would you do with that?

Do you ever misread things?

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I was surfing today and I thought I read “Creative Whineing”. Turns out it was really “Creative Writing”. I wonder if I’m just reading too fast, or it was a bad font choice? I always try to blame other people if I can. Don’t you?

Why Piracy Is Indispensable For The Survival Of Our Culture Techdirt – StumbleUpon

 

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Why Piracy Is Indispensable For The Survival Of Our Culture Techdirt – StumbleUpon. This is an interesting point of view. I agree that many things would not have survived without a dedicated fan base. I’m not sure that things should survive if they aren’t important enough to value on the face of them. If we as a society don’t value Martin Luthers “I have a dream” speech for example, doesn’t that speak to our own priorities as a a culture now? I think that we will have to loose many things, animals, cultures, languages and possibilities before we start to value all of the abundance we have.