I love to hate Facebook. It’s practically a hobby of mine. It blows my mind that Facebook is largely considered to be the new Google. I mean, even Google employees are defecting to Facebook. Lots of them! To friggin’ Facebook! A company whose website can’t even implement consistent navigation control…
It’s funny how my computer purchase cycles seem to mirror Microsoft’s OS release cycles. I’ve had an XP machine, a Vista machine, and now—as of last week—I own a Windows 7 machine. I bought the first two within months of the OS release, but managed to hold out on Windows 7 for more than a …
Oh Google, you disappoint me. A few months ago, all of a sudden, I noticed I wasn’t getting my normal 100 hits per Google query anymore. Instead, I always got 10. I’d go into my search settings, change it from 10 to 100, click save, and get that good ol’ fashioned “Your preferences have been …
Good electronica is so hard to find these days. Back in 2000 I was up to my eyeballs in unbelievably awesome, ground breaking electronica. Now it’s like panning for gold; you just want to hug everyone within a five mile radius when you finally find a good nugget. Well, here’s my most recent gold nugget. …
I just lost 60 minutes of my life… and I’m never getting it back. About a year ago my dad asked me to write him an Excel addin that would shuffle some data around, do some minor aggregations, yadda yadda yadda. Nothing major. Being the good son I am, I got started right away. Gosh, …
Interviewing. Bleh. Everyone hates it. Doesn’t matter which side of the table you’re on, it’s not fun. For a while my previous employer—let’s call them SuperMega Financial, Inc*—had me assessing candidates’ VBA/Excel skills. I didn’t choose who would be brought in, but my thumbs down meant No Hire. It was an eye-opening experience. Even though …
Ha! I just proved Gmail wrong. I have several email addresses, all of which dump into my primary Gmail account. One address is for personal stuff, one is for work related stuff, one is…. eh, you get my drift. Lots of address, lots of purposes. I also have lots of alarm bells that go off …
Cyberpowerfucked: A term that was originally used to describe what happens when you buy a computer from CyberPower inc, but has now broadened to mean ‘any piece of computer hardware that breaks soon after you receive it.
QuickShift is a rad tool to have. Unlike so many other “multiple monitor” software utilities, it doesn’t include a bunch of invasive shtuff like extra taskbars and pointy-clicky buttons at the top of all your windows. If you’re a mouse person, sure, those things are probably great, but I’m a keyboard man myself. That stupid …
Until two days ago I was one of the few—the proud—FaceBook and Twitter holdouts. Facebook is just one big buggy mess slash privacy nightmare slash self-inflicted spam machine. And twitter… well, I still don’t really “get” twitter. Short, mindless messages ad nauseam? Pass. But since everyone and their mothers—mine included, I think—are on one or …