Twitter and Lose Your Job! March 17, 2009
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Okay, so it isn’t quite that dire, but the Milwaukee Bucks, NBA basket ball team, has a player who is on Twitter. Seems he tweeted at half-time of an important game. Now the coach has banned Twitter during games. I guess I can see his point. When the coach of the other team was asked about the incident, he summed it up this way:
“Yeah, well, I have no comment,” Rivers said. “New generation.”
Milwaukee Bucks tell Charlie Villanueva not to Twitter during games anymore – ESPN
The (not) Book March 11, 2009
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Funny video on Google Video. Joe is having a little trouble with his text book. Thanks to Chris Lehmann for the link.
Sorry, An Error Has Occurred January 15, 2009
Posted by Matthew Woolums in Humor, Opinion.2 comments
Some day this sort of thing won’t happen. Some day, errors won’t be an expected component of technology. Some day, we will no longer notice technology because it just works.
Some day, but not today.
2008 Predictions In Review December 31, 2008
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About a year ago, I made a few modest predictions for 2008. I tried to make them generic enough to fit most developments, and even included an out for the unpredictable.
What do I think the new year will bring? The trend to smaller, more portable, networked devices will continue, mostly from the cell phone industry, although one hears rumors of new portable devices. I also think that open source will continue to invade the business world. I also think that Net Neutrality will be both more important, and more imperiled. Oh, and of course, something will come along that I didn’t expect, I probably won’t understand, and I’ll dismiss it as an unimportant passing fad, just like I did with Twitter in 2007.
Smaller, more portable devices made a big impact with netbooks in 2008, so that prediction looks sound. Open source is still only marginally accepted, so I’ll call that prediction as off target. Something I didn’t expect? I suppose LOL Cats would qualify for that, although I’m sure the site started long before I heard about it. LOL Cats? It is a site where visitors create captions for animal pictures, and vote for which ones they like. My youngest spends hours collecting her favorites!
more animals
OVPC – I Hope Not November 5, 2008
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One Velociraptor per Child is a darkly humorous parody of OLPC, which I’ve written about many times. At least I hope it is a parody. My thanks to Bryan Alexander for this link.
Remember When? August 18, 2008
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Just in case you were getting nostalgic for your old school days, what with the start of a new school year and all, along comes a funny site that lets you start with a picture of yourself and shows you what you might have looked like in a year book picture. You can choose any year from 1950 to 2000 in two year increments. Here is a small gallery of myself in different decades. Having attended high school in the 70’s, those pictures were just too painful to publish here. Maybe you’ll look better back then than I do. I did?
1958
1988
1996
Unintended Consequences July 9, 2008
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Technology is an experiment. No one really knows what the outcome will be. I believe that we can’t know what will happen until it happens. This is due in part to the disconnect between the producers and consumers of technology. Software programmers and hardware designers do the best work they can to anticipate the needs of their users, but the users frequently view technology from their own perspective. The unintended outcomes are sometimes more important. The video below is a humorous illustration of what I’m trying to say. Enjoy!
Google Earth – Be Careful Where You Click! June 19, 2008
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Interesting point of view about using Google Earth. You might want to be more careful about where you click!
