Posts Tagged: Web, Blogging and Computers
Friday Bullets For Your Good Friday
Posted by on Friday, April 10, 2009 in - 11 comments
This weekend is when Canada excels at the whole "not working" thing. A four day weekend and, as I have in the past, I am taking next week off to be spring-like. Would have been better - more, you know, meaningful - if the Red Sox had won the game yesterday afternoon as a start to my marathon of …
Viruses Lurking In The Electricity Grid
Posted by on Thursday, April 9, 2009 in - 1 comment
Drag. Years ago, I read in Wired in 2001 how no one could figure out if efforts to transmit access to the internet your home's electric outlets. The promise of capacity was staggering: • .... anyone with electricity running into their homes would have access to an almost unimaginable amount of …
For Those Too Busy For Twitter...
Posted by on Tuesday, April 7, 2009 in - leave a comment
"We Deserve To Be Explained What Is Going On"
Posted by on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 in - 1 comment
I don't know why I find this so funny yet so sweet.I don't really care what they were protesting - it is a classic for itself alone. The innocence of Bambi combined with the political savvy of... Bambi. Catch phrases of a generation: "Who's the hierarchy here?" and "You're on camera" and "Freddy …
Group Project: Is Twitter The New Gold Fish Eating Contest
Posted by on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 in - 16 comments
I wonder about things. I wonder why I need so many half consumed jars of jam. I wonder why the rise of the internet, the economic bubble and its bursting are all related. I wonder why no one seems to notice that. And I wonder why Twitter is taking off, jumping the shark and about to become (in Mr …
Friday Bullets For The Day I Woke At Noon
Posted by on Friday, March 20, 2009 in - 1 comment
Being the bachelor man for one last night, I saw no reason to set the clock, to not watch all the basketball the TV could offer, then Obama on Leno, then a few infomercials. When you think about it, I probably haven't really adjusted from changing the clocks. That's it. That's why I woke up at the …
"Did You Used To Drink Down The Old Kent Road?"
Posted by on Wednesday, March 18, 2009 in - leave a comment
Seeing as we are having short posts today, perhaps given my evening drive to the USA, have a look at Ron's last post. Ron is one of the best beer bloggers out there. He specializes in going to London libraries and museums and hunting out actual brewing records from the nineteenth and early 20th …
Information? What Information? This Is A Game, Issnit?
Posted by on Wednesday, March 18, 2009 in - leave a comment
Sometimes web based graphical representations of data are perhaps more compelling than the information it represents. Whole lotta swooshing going on.
How Business Once Was Done...
Posted by on Monday, March 16, 2009 in - leave a comment
Sometimes comment maker Rob Paterson's recollections of family life growing up with money in Britain - and sometimes the colonies - are often an entertaining glimpse into another world but even this one about his father surprised me: • ...Dad had set up a metals trading company called PISS , or …
Thunderbirds, Facebook And Twitter
Posted by on Saturday, March 14, 2009 in - 9 comments
Watching the DVDs of the mid-60s Thunderbirds and looking over the new Facebook GUI got me thinking. When I was a kid in the 60s I was promised many things. A jet pack for instance. Also, world peace and, well, that jet pack. But I was also promised global information sharing. Have I got that? I …
