Sweat the Small Stuff: Ranting about the little peeves in life
Posted in Tech/Net on Nov 7th, 2007
Over a year ago I jokingly noted that I had apparently “arrived” with my blog because spammers had found me and began regularly trying to post comments to the site. I am proud to say that to date no comment spam has successfully made it to public viewing, but unfortunately that has taken a little [...]
Posted in General Rants, Tech/Net on Oct 23rd, 2007
Growing up we spend most of our time complaining that people don’t take us seriously enough. I know most teenagers think they know it all and no one realizes it or respects them for it. As an adult, most of us get over this though plenty of others do not.
Most adults I deal with on [...]
Posted in Tech/Net on Oct 18th, 2007
If you are reading this article there are a few simple assumptions I can make. First, you are online therefore you have an internet connection and a computer. Second, you like were involved at some point in the purchase of the computer or have purchased some extra gadget for the computer some time in the [...]
Have you checked out the new Street View feature from Google? If not, it is a fun view of a couple of major cities as taken from a roving van topped with some special cameras. The low resolution photos are all linked together for a virtual tour along city streets. Google is [...]
Posted in Tech/Net on May 18th, 2007
I have written previously about Internet Trolls and the annoyance they are to most community-based sites. Fortunately WGG hasn’t seen all that many people commenting that are simply vying for attention. In fact, I have taken the administrative liberty of not approving those that are obvious flames intent on riling up the regular users. Call [...]
Posted in Tech/Net on Feb 27th, 2007
I spend a fair amount of time reading other sites these days. In fact, my reading of printed books and other publications has dropped dramatically since I started using Google Reader and subscribing to a number of new RSS feeds from various sites. 90% of these feeds are from blogs, plus I read a number [...]
Posted in General Rants, Pet Peeves, Tech/Net on Feb 18th, 2007
If you have a mail address and have at least one friend in the world, you likely have had some email joke/story/whatever forwarded to you. We all have done it, and we are all more than likely guilty of at some point having forwarded something that ended up not being true. Yep, Urban Legends, fake [...]
Posted in Tech/Net on Feb 5th, 2007
I often tell people I try to follow in my father’s footsteps of being a self-taught jack of all trades whenever possible. I am definitely a “master of none” as the rest of the saying goes, but I do try to learn something new every day and excel at the things that interest me.
That is [...]
Posted in General Rants, Tech/Net on Jan 17th, 2007
Most of my life I have had pretty decent handwriting. I am not talking about anything to win awards, but legible, even and pleasant writing. I never really took pride in it, but it was something I was conscious of. Recently I have noticed that my handwriting quality has digressed, quite a bit in fact. [...]
Posted in Tech/Net on Jan 8th, 2007
Thankfully I really haven’t seen this much recently, but it has happened often enough I feel the need to share this little habit with the world. In my work, IM is a way of business communication now. Of course I still have some personal dialogs that pop up throughout the day, but for the most [...]
