Jan. 18, 2013
10:43 a.m.
There was an epoch wherein the pursuit of a post K-12 education, or even a high school degree, might be career related. I'm old, so I remember the Board of Education throwing my fate to hired guns (aka counselors) who claimed to understand how humans will...
Jan. 13, 2013
10:39 a.m.
The concept of futurework sticks in my brain like an ear worm, it's the filter by which I view a spectacle of our foundering economy. Our nation, and an astonishing list of nation-competitors, are bound to technology as flesh is to blood, and much maligne...
Dec. 18, 2012
1:10 p.m.
I'm trying, against considerable odds, to think of words that aren't trite in the face of recent events. I want to address issues more relevant than which phone, TV, tablet to purchase/recommend, even though, and in spite of the tools in my kit, I'm now u...
Dec. 12, 2012
5:30 a.m.
A New York Times article, “That’s No Phone. That’s My Tracker,” by Peter Maass, suggests that we should consider smartphones, computers, and other connected devices as tracking machines rather than simple appliances of persona...
Dec. 5, 2012
12:01 a.m.
I don't want to be a Christmas stealing Grinch, but because it’s an election year the hype-o-meter began to peg last summer and it’s stressing me out. Silly me, I worry about value, I consider whether products are the best they could be i...
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Nov. 27, 2012
10:55 a.m.
This time of year I'm often asked to recommend technology. One might think that the plethora of choice might be construed as plethora of technical innovation, but I submit that the hype is greater than reality (shocker!).
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Nov. 19, 2012
10:32 a.m.
It's now common knowledge, at least in the geek community, that Team Obama had data, knew how to execute, and Team Romney didn't have a clue.
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Aug. 1, 2012
12:01 a.m.
From the previous post:
If we don’t take care of our mess some clever opportunist will. If we fail some other entity will succeed. If our children are left behind our nation will be left in the dust. We're not going to cure our so...
July 28, 2012
12:01 a.m.
From the last blog post:
The trend (of education) is promising and it's not necessarily about computer labs in antique classrooms or taped lectures with bad audio, it's about Alex, Eve and John hammering away, absorbing, self-educating (what a g...
July 22, 2012
12:01 a.m.
Acknowledgment to my readers (both of them) who remind that I'm late with this post.
As a professional geek I'm sometimes engaged to help a stranger with technical problems. I get really bugged by persons with less knowle...
