I meant to write about this back in November, but November and December sort of got devoured, so maybe I can do it justice now. Every November, our company does a little internal conference where people do talks and workshops and stuff for other people to learn from. When it came time to make presentation …
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Cut It Out With The Cord Cutting
Maybe this is one of those old man things, but I really don’t understand cord cutting. If you’re trying to save money and all you ever use your TV for is the odd movie or something here and there then perhaps it makes sense to ditch cable and just pay $10 a month for Netflix …
Dear Twitter
If you’re going to limit or suspend someone’s account, doing these two things would be nice. Let me know it happened. You have an email and a phone number for me. Try using them, would ya? There aren’t many reasons I want to hear from you, but this is one of them. Let me know …
Want To Join My Facebook Group? No? Too Bad!
The other night Carin was annoyed that somebody had, not for the first time, added her to a group on Facebook without any sort of warning or permission. I agreed that this would be irritating and then, quite reasonably I thought, asked if there was some setting that she hadn’t gotten around to changing. “No,” …
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Here’s Something Interesti…Hey, Want An Email? Do ya? Do Ya Huh? I’ll Bet You Want An Email!
Sometimes it doesn’t happen for a while and I forget how much I hate it, but then it happens twice in ten minutes and all of a sudden I want to slap someone…repeatedly…with a shovel. Dear website people: I like newsletters. I subscribe to several of them. But you know what I don’t like? At …
Dumb People Are Trying To Ruin Deadspin
I know it’s dumb people, because if your grand idea is to buy something that’s both unique and popular and then set about draining it of much of what makes it unique and popular, you are a dumb person. Deadspin works precisely because it doesn’t stick to sports. Don’t get me wrong, it can be …
Google Chrome Can Now Try To Describe Images
I don’t use Chrome as my default browser, but from time to time it comes in handy. So when I heard about this, I figured I’d try it out. My first impression is that it’s quite spotty, not always able to give a description when you could use one. When you do get one, it …
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Where The Fake Celebrity Ads Come From And How They Work
Perhaps you remember me writing about those damn fake celebrity endorsements that were constantly popping up here and pretty well everywhere else on the internet for a while. If you do, chances are you may be interested in this long article about Ads Inc., one of the companies seemingly responsible for a lot of them. …
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Pirates And Creators Living Together! Mass Hysteria!
After decades of wasted effort and billions in wasted money, it’s good to see that somebody is finally starting to figure this out. There will always be online piracy. That’s just a fact. No amount of enforcement or revenue choking or anything else you can think of will ever stamp it out completely. At best …
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This Call Is A Scam
As long as I am of sound mind, I can’t imagine ever falling for one of these computer support scams. Unfortunately, a lot of people aren’t me and still do. There’s sadly not a whole lot that can or is being done to stop any of it, which makes videos like this fairly valuable. Not …