Posts Tagged: Web, Blogging and Computers
Friday Bullets For The Humpday Of February
Posted by on Friday, February 15, 2008 in - 6 comments
Doesn't February cling on this year, demanding one 24 more hours before we get to the month of hope? Well, February is half over as of noon today. I hate February. I really don't know why particularly as there never were exams or a rush to get a paper out. Never a particular drain on the budget or …
Friday Bullets For The 4,000th Post At Gen X At 40
Posted by on Friday, February 8, 2008 in - 4 comments
Four thousand posts. Why do I do this? It's just a cup of coffee in the morning. A way to get things going. I've met a lot of interesting ideas as well as a lot of tedious egos along the way but the best thing's the incredible strength I have developed in my fingers. My God they are huge. More …
First Friday Bullets Of February
Posted by on Friday, February 1, 2008 in - leave a comment
All my life I had been looking forward to January 2008 and now it's gone: • Dirt coming. • The Hall of Fame Game at Cooperstown was announced this week and it will be the last. Here's what it looked like in 2006. • Google's losing ad money and Yahoo's about to be bought out. It's over. Back …
Has eBay Peaked?
Posted by on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 in - 1 comment
I haven't gone to eBay looking for junk like my junk to add to my junk for some time now so it is interesting to see that there may actually be troubles over at the big money for nothing shop: • “EBay Inc.'s incoming chief executive officer John Donahoe has wasted no time shaking up the online …
Friday Bullets For The Deep Of Mid-January
Posted by on Friday, January 18, 2008 in - 2 comments
I met a person whose body and chattles weighed in at under six pounds this week. Amazing stuff people. Like carrying a shoe around. What else did I notice this week? • When some kid does her masters thesis on me, there will be something of a puzzle to solve so I better help her out. Yes, that is …
Bullets For A Rainy January Day
Posted by on Friday, January 11, 2008 in - 4 comments
Good thing we didn't get the tornadoes off this front like the good folk further south did. Good thing global warming is a myth. • Update: The Scots - US Gospel singing connection explained. • Just in case you were wondering, Dice-K is already working out. • Boing Boing Bingo. Gold …
Sign Of The Endtimes At This Holiday Season
Posted by on Monday, December 24, 2007 in - 2 comments
A sound like "ping" went off in my head when I read this at the BBC just now: • “ • Don't be lonely at Christmas time • Social networking sites could eventually eliminate entirely the need for the offline socialising that has become the cornerstone of the festive season. Most people have …
Why YouTube Should Have Now Jumped The Shark
Posted by on Sunday, December 23, 2007 in - leave a comment
In this world fueled by commercial hype and belief in anything that lacks substance, it is easy to understand why things no longer lose their appeal to the hip so much as just get replaced by the next new thing, whether it is NuTheft , the vacuous embarrassment of the next encyclical by an atheist …
The Friday Bullet Points Of Christmas
Posted by on Friday, December 21, 2007 in - 5 comments
Here we are. Another Christmas is upon us and the worst Friday for the idle clock watcher. What to not do when there may not be much to actually do? Eat candy canes in the morning, feel ill and ridden with guilt in the afternoon. • Sad Tech Update: Twitter as best bloggy app thingie of the year …
Stupid IT Git Idea #23974
Posted by on Saturday, December 15, 2007 in - 2 comments
When the walls come tumbling down - and, yea, so shall they - the twits who think up this stuff will have a lot to answer for: • “According to a post on the Official Google Blog, the new reference tool encourages experts to write encyclopedic articles called knols, which stands for unit of …
