Computers take pictures of each other
After I brought my new laptop home yesterday, what was the first thing I had to do? Of course:...
ComputersA collection of 29 posts
Unemployment saved my life
I will have more thoughts to offer on this milestone later, but for now let me just say that my job has ended. Like a wounded deer it kept dragging on, but at long last, finally,...
Netflix stumbles
Netflix is going to eliminate account profiles this September. If you don't know, that's the feature that allows you to maintain separate DVD queues under one account. YMMV, but to me Netflix...
It's never too late to say "I told you so"
When you absolutely, positively have to be a smug asshole to your friends and love ones one last time, there's: YouveBeenLeftBehind.com In a nutshell, the site queues up messages from you to your...
Care and feeding of your backups
Last April I wrote the first draft of a story called "Care and Feeding of Your Piano." It's a short, humorous piece written entirely as excerpts from the interactive instruction manual for...
TECH cocktail
Any Chicago folks here going to TECH cocktail this Thursday? Time Out Chicago says: [F]or Frank Gruber and Eric Olson, no element of TECH cocktail, their semi-annual networking party, is too grand. And this could...