On my monthly trek to North Campus, invariably to yell at some wing of the administration, I decided to do an informal survey of cell-phone use after seeing several people in a row talking on a cell phone, punctuated by one brazen young woman who was poking curiously at her keypad. Whether she was dialing, text-messaging or trying to reverse the ( Read more... )

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You know, if software companies charged half of what they did for their crap, they could be far less concerned about their licensing schemes because more people would be willing to actually pay for what they are getting. Okay, perhaps that logic is quite flawed, but I am really pissed that I always have to deal with some licensing structure or ( Read more... )

I made a stop this morning at a local store, and noticed a sign on the doorway that advertised the availability of high-speed wireless internet access for customers. This sign has been there a while, and two years ago (plus a few months), the last time I actually checked, "high-speed wireless internet access" consisted of a Linksys wireless 802. ( Read more... )

Has anybody noticed that cell phones are trying to become more than what anyone has asked them to be? Java has long been a companion of cell phones, back to iDEN at least on Motorola phones. Internal memory has always been limited, because...well, I don't know. Actually, that's exactly the part of the identity crisis I wanted to address ( Read more... )

Generally, the best thought I come up with in the course of a normal day is very...well...boring. Yesterday's best thought, for example, was a brilliant idea that today helped me be amazingly more proficient at work (and happier with the work I am currently doing). It was also a brilliant mathematical amalgamation summed up in easy to understand ( Read more... )

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Surprise! I was in New Orleans last weekend. It involved a very tame bachelor's party (tame, mind you). Lots of...fun, but I am going to pick on the airline industry and the extra adventures that resulted ( Read more... )

Why? Why? Why?

DVD-Audio heralds the next generation of music, promising to obsolete CDs in a mere manner of years. Consumers want DVD-Audio. They need it. It's far superior to CD audio. This could be the next big thing ( Read more... )

O affect and effect,
Whoever created you both should have died a horrible death?
Who is responsible, O banes of my editorial existence?
The obscurity of those who correct you adds to my woes,
As does the obscurity of those who know how to CORRECTLY correct you ( Read more... )