Ok, people need to chill out with their texting rage. First, we had those dudes meeting up to fight because one of them texted the wrong number, and now we have people engaging in a knife fight because of a predictive text error in a text message. I guess the story goes that Neil Brook …
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My N86 Has Just Become Eyeballs In A Box!
Well, the day has come. I finally, after hemming and hawing for a year, got myself KNFB Reader, or eyeballs in a box as I affectionately call it. First I was worried I broke my phone’s camera. So, I got that tested out in June at the Aiming for Accessibility conference. Once it was determined …
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And What Have We Learned Today, Boys And Girls? Your Supply Teacher Is Crazy!
It looks like William Amory believes in the Home Depot Pry Bar guy philosophy for dealing with uncooperative devices. Break stuff. But Ammory doesn’t restrict his rage to the offending device. Oh no. He goes after the people trying to help him. Amory was a substitute teacher for a second-grade class. He was having trouble …
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You Don’t Have A Virus, But This Scam Is Spreading Like One
This happened last Monday, and I’ve been meaning to write about it ever since in the hopes that it might help someone else. The phone rang, and the caller ID said number unknown, but I decided to pick it up anyway. It then rang in my ear. Auto-dialer fail! Then, a heavily accented voice started …
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How To Land ‘Em And Keep ‘Em, all While Breaking The Bank
I’m going to keep this post quick since Carin and I are busy not buying presents and doing nothing special for Valentine’s Day, but I do want to say that I am a very lucky guy. It’s an amazing feeling knowing you’ve found a person you can ignore Valentine’s Day with, and it might be …
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Susan The Speech Synth’s Lament
I am full of this crazy energy, but cannot focus it. It’s kind of what it looks like if I have one of those heavily-caffeinated drinks, or, if all is in the right combination, a cuppa soup. I just sort of run around in several directions and get nothing done, but boy do I want …
Somebody Needs To Tell This Kid That There’s No Such Thing As An Extra Life
I respect the hell out of Alessandro Micalizzi. Don’t feel bad, I didn’t know that name until just now either. To a lot of people, the off-duty Italian police officer is a hero. With just seconds to spare, he managed to jump off of a subway platform and rescue a 10-year-old boy who had fallen …
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Power Outage Or Intelligence Outage?
We have talked about people burglarizing houses and staying around to watch porn or go on their Facebook or MySpace, but thanks to Cody Wilkins, we have a new one. You see, the power was out at his house last week due to the crazy weather. He liked to break into places and take jewellery, …
The Post Office’s Thoughtlessness Towards Accessibility Is Enough To Make One Go Postal!
I was hoping to have something funny between angry chomping posts, but nothing funny came to me. So let’s go, chomp chomp chomp. Back in December, I walked down to the post office. I was going to send Ro her Christmas present. That’s a pretty simple task. I walked in there, got it all boxed …
Blind Driver Challenge Audio
We have talked about the Blind Driver Challenge when it was in its baby stages. Well, they put this technology in a Ford Escape, and yesterday, Mark Riccobono drove it around the racetrack at Daytona.Have some audio, courtesy of Blind Bargains. I don’t know how to feel about this. Yeah, maybe they can take something …