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“Should I go roll around in the dirt or just take whatever Milo is chewing out of his mouth?” Evie is growing up. She’s six months old now and very mellow for her age. Milo is three months older and pretty much goes apeshit all over the back yard. Evie mostly watches him bounce from [...]
By now, it’s not news that hackers compromised user accounts of Gawker.com websites. Gawker sent out notices to users to change their passwords, particularly if they used the same password on more than one web site. It’s embarassing for them, but I respect that they announced the problem to their user base and gave recommendations [...]
Every October, it seems we’re awash in pink ribbons. They’re supposed to raise awareness of Breast Cancer, promote the need for mammograms and treatment. It’s everywhere. I can’t even walk into my office without being assaulted by a table full of pink – ribbons, posters and flyers all designed to raise my awareness and, more [...]
Microsoft’s Bing and Facebook had an interesting announcement yesterday. Bing now incorporates social data from Facebook into its search results. That means the information you see now has a very different taint to it. Rather than being relevant based upon the text you typed into the box, search results will now prioritize based upon people [...]
A few weeks ago, Larry Becker wrote a post titled “The Needy Among Us.” He discussed the people who simply must have things their way, rationalizing it as they go along and demanding results from others to accommodate their own needs. I commented that we should just call these people what they are – whiners. [...]
I don’t have any kids, so Sesame Street never gets any airplay in my house. I’m not up on the latest happening there, unless it makes the news. Sadly, that’s just what happened last week. It seems some parents got bent out of shape over Katy Perry’s visit to Sesame Street because she showed a [...]
I’ve spent way too much time on message boards. Before most of us had access to the Internet, I was hosting a BBS on my old Apple ][+ computer out of my bedroom in my parent’s house. Checking messages before going to school and then wondering what I’d find when I got home. Instead of [...]
Author. Photographer. IT Addict. Florida Native. This is my place to play around on the web. 