Technology

I’ve been called many things in my life, opinionated, obstinate, spoiled, stuck-up, and a few others, but I’ve never been called dishonest, that I know of. Well, actually, there was one time I was accused of being dishonest. That was when a high-school English teacher, Mrs. Pek, gave me a failing grade for my short…

Yesterday, in Las Vegas, could be considered something akin to Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. It had to do with some bad decisions on my part and some inferior customer service from an Apple Store. But this post is less about an Apple complaint on my iPhone and more about how I handled…

Imagine quitting your really great job for a decade-old writing project you haven’t been able to finish while working full time. And you must finish. You can’t explain why. It must be done. It doesn’t matter that there are people who think you’re crazy. Then, imagine you finally find a way to corral the multitude…

Tonight was Watson’s second appearance on Jeopardy! Watson is IBM’s new super computer experiment, designed to understand plain language and draw from its huge database to compete against the top all-time Jeopardy! champs. While Watson completely destroyed its opponents in the first game, played over two nights because of the many interruptions to bring us…

Well, I’ve been a very bad blogger. But I promise to improve. What’s irking me lately? Viruses on Facebook. Leave it to hackers to ruin it for the rest of us. This week a virus was going around Facebook that took the form of a message from a friend. The title was OMG! and if…

So–last week we bought daughter Kasey a new laptop for her much-deserved December college graduation. We had a specific budget to follow in order to be fair to oldest child, Krista, who received luggage and a photo printer for her also much-deserved graduation. Seeing an ad for a Compaq in my Sunday Staples ad, I…