Tag: internet
After exactly two-and-a-half months without internet, I’m officially back online. It’s a Christmas miracle!
I love the Internet. Even though bad ideas are constantly propagated, good ideas are also propagated. And I have faith that humans as a whole will rise above the bullshit.
I love that the Internet will provide such a detailed record to our descendants of who we truly were as individuals.
Anyone who believes this nation doesn’t have a serious problem with racism must not use the same internet I do.
Have you ever clicked a link and lost an hour of your life surfing randomly? On a related note, why do people ask rhetorical questions?
Real friends in the virtual world are better than virtual friends in the real world.
Q: What is the email etiquette in this situation?
Q: What is the email etiquette in this situation? I emailed my colleague who happens to have about 4 different email addresses. I used the one she was using a few months ago……but I have a feeling she doesn’t check that one anymore. I sent the email 2 days ago but I still haven’t gotten […]
Hey Hey! Ho Ho! IE6 Has Got to Go!
Please, please…if you’re still using Internet Explorer 6, STOP! Why? Microsoft wants you to. IE6 has many issues with security and display. Comedy Central wants you to. Once you upgrade to FireFox (Windows or Mac), or IE7 (Windows), you’ll get faster download times, smoother animations and better looking pages. All of the new browsers have […]
Goodbye Television Stations, Hello Social Networks
I grew up watching television, just like everyone else. I’ve always thought of each channel in terms of its own personality or spirit, so to speak. When a station that was once young and vibrant gets strung out on pop rock candy, for example, I see it has an entity that has lost its way, […]
Selling Virtual Things
My cousin, Steve Metze, asked me how one could make money selling virtual things. Well, the entire Second Life economy is a lot like the US economy, only it’s based on the Linden (L$), which is their version of the dollar. Now, if it was just play money I wouldn’t be excited about it in […]
Stop using www. right now!
I grew up in a town of about 12,000. Everyone I knew had the same area code and the same prefix to their phone number. For anyone calling from, say, Kansas, my home phone number was (806) 894-4879. For anyone calling from my hometown, all I had to tell them was 4879. Well, I have […]
My History of the Internet
There was a computer class that I took in high school that was absolutely terrible. The school year was 1993-1994, and I was a sophomore. We learned how to use a simple word processing program (that was already outdated), and that was basically it for the entire semester. The students (myself included) in that class […]