Why I Stopped Using Bookmarks
Bookmarks suck. Sure, it was easy to keep track of them when you only had a few dozen, but these days, we want to file away hundreds, usually thousands of various tidbits of information. Once you bookmark it, how do...
Category: Geek
The Moment has passed and the Evo now reigns
It’s been about a week and a half since Shauna and I upgraded our aging Samsung Moment handsets to the brand new HTC Evo 4G LTE, one of Sprint’s flagship devices for their new LTE network. Short version: these handsets...
Live in a Glass House
Everything I post on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ is set to be visible to the public. A lot of people would call me nuts for doing this and wonder why I don’t do a “better” job at managing my privacy....
Privacy, Noise Control, and Facebook’s Inability to Understand Either
I’m a fairly “public” person. I post a lot of things in the public view on teh Interwebs and harbor little expectation of privacy when I do so. I’m also a bit selective as to what I share as a...
Noise Control
One of the biggest problems with all social media problems is noise control. You will inevitably end up with a lot of content that just doesn’t appeal to you at all. Despite the various ways that platforms attempt to address...
Google+ Explained (and why I like it better than Facebook)
It’s been about two weeks since Google unleashed its latest effort to “get” social networking and I must say that I’m very impressed. After such huge duds like Orkut, Buzz, and Wave, I was beginning to think that The Big...
Why Social Score Sites Like Empire Avenue Matter
When I first noticed Empire Avenue, I derisively dismissed it as “Farmville for the Twitter crowd”. It sounded like just another game designed to waste hours of time to meaninglessly raise arbitrary numbers. I had already witnessed (and experienced) the...
Why I Hate Registration (And You Should Too)
Every time a website wants me to register a new account, I reflexively tense up and feel my blood pressure rising. Sure, it’s inconvenient, but that’s not why I do it. I do it because using your own registration system...
Workaround: XBMC/Boxee and Windows Live Sign-In Assistant
I didn’t know how else to get this workaround out there, so I figured this must be the place. If the subject title makes no sense to you, go ahead and skip this post. There is a vexing and frustrating...
Doing With Less
When you take a moment to actually assess which of the things you own you actually use, you’ll find that you don’t use a surprising amount of it. Often, you won’t be able to remember the last time you did...
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