OK, hold it. That’s the name I’m going to call the Nook (B&N e-reader) that I’m am buying used on Amazon of all places. What did you think I was talking about? I have a history of toofless naming of things. When I was about 8, I got a chicken for Easter. I named him Pecker. Hey, I was 8! I had great parents they only smiled. My Grams laughed but then she hugged me — no harm, no foul. Read more…
Calibre? You’ve figured out by now that I love cryptic titling. This one isn’t cryptic in the traditional sense. It a program. Today, I go geek. That’s hard. These days I’m only a demi-geek or a wannageek. But, that better than some of you Luddites. (She knows who I am talking about.) Read more…
The other day I suggested to Apple and the brothers do-no-harm (Google) that they could opt on my fickle finger of fate. Read more…
Unless you’re back to hiding under a rock, you’ve heard that the smart phone, i-pads, and various WiFi enabled whatever track and report your whereabouts. That is without permission. When you take a picture with one, the phone inserts the location by default. There is no opt in requirement to any of this. The location file/reporting has become such a topic that Stuart Smalley Al Franken has forward a senatorial nasty-gram to Steve Jobs. Besides that your android flavor is reporting that and all the WiFi connections you might pass. Read more…
Microsoft releases patches to the Windows operating system on Tuesdays. Yesterday’s release was a hummer. It is a release you should update in a short time period. Read more…
The Daily show made fun of that description of the Internet. In some ways it is spot on.
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All my troubles seemed so far away. Today, after going through yesterday, that is no longer the theme song. But, on the good side Frontier being my ISP is a thing of the past — their modem is disconnected. Read more…
That is the refrain for those adrenalin prone. Here it has a different meaning. If you followed my horror story with Frontier in previous blogs it isn’t likely to be a shock. Read more…
No I haven’t taken over for Josie during Lent. Add a SHIMA to that and you get the nuke site that they are hoping doesn’t become a real nuke site. Read more…
Sorry to start this blog with such profanity in the title. I normally don’t work blue. Want more profanity? Republicans! Democrats! Federal Employees. Read more…
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