Back in the Saddle
Hello again! For those that have wondered what on Earth happened to me, I’m finally back. It has been an insanely busy summer with working nearly every weekend. To add to matters, an older site on my...
View ArticleCould “Occupy Christmas” be Next?
I was pondering about the impromptu lectures (he calls rants) of +Jeff Jarvis and some interesting discussions involving #OWS. My overly pragmatic brain thought, “What would Wall Street care about some...
View ArticleGoogle + Experiment
I’ve been looking at Google+ and their new pages features. It does seem an odd mix of things and I cannot easily share contacts from personal to page to page. I am hopeful but plan to have a copy of...
View ArticleCrazy 2012 Prediction #1
Having not heard of anyone brave enough to make wild predictions for 2012, I decided to start with this one. I predict that there will be an “Internet” outage in 2012. I’m not talking about an ISP...
View ArticleWill there be an Internet Independence Day?
I was listening to Jeff Jarvis talking about Davos on TWiG episode 131. He was mentioning that he had a chance to see what the 0.1% thought about the Internet and SOPA protests. As I think he put it,...
View ArticleYou’re Printing it Wrong
I have a real love-hate relationship with pdf E-books. After designing my first book outline for a diary, I developed an appreciation (contempt) for the difference between MS Word and publishing...
View ArticleThis could be the beginning of a scientific revolution or the Zombie...
This actually isn’t a joke. What makes us different from the un-dead creatures from spook-show zombie movies and the likes of Twilight vampires? Aside from value to society and a touch of class, the...
View ArticleSocial Networks, Big Data, and You
On the most recent episode of This Week in Google (TWiG), co-host Jeff Jarvis was making his trademark point about social networks like FB having the ability to provide benefit to their users by...
View ArticleAn Officer is Laid to Rest Today
No matter what you think of police in general, nobody should die in the line of their work. An unfortunate accident last week ended the life of 26 year old Officer Jennifer Kovach. This broke a...
View ArticleHow About a Ponder?
It has been too long since I posted much of anything here, much less some ponders. Life had just got busy enough to deny me the opportunity or want to sit back and waste a bit of time pondering, but I...
View ArticleNew Internet Threat
There is a very recent threat on the Internet that is being referred to as a crypto-locker attack. You may be familiar with terms like ad-ware and spyware but this is a new type of malware threat known...
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Remembrance Day Standing in the snow and rain at the cenotaph, I thought what it would was to be a soldier. I knew that they would not be the ones to complain about the weather, just as none dared do...
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Harry’s Review
I keep meaning to sit down and write a review of some of the products I experiment with. Well, I’m finally sat down with a product that I think is worth talking about. The product is Harry’s, an...
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What does a murder, car crash, house fire and collapse all have in common?
Story at Owen Sound Sun TImes Someone has to respond. First responders witness the horrors of life every single day; the things that common people don’t even want to hear about on the news. You can...
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Why are people shopping online?
Because most local retailers suck. I have wanted an ivory linen jacket for years and decided to stop waiting for that ‘someday’. So I went on a walk-about to see what is out there and how it fit (I...
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My Fortnight as a Mac Fanboy
OK, the title is a little on the link-bait side. I wasn’t so much a fanboy as a dedicated Mac user for two weeks without even looking at a Windows machine. Why would I do such a thing? Simple, I hate...
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