Technology
The Internet hive and a new kind of privacy
I am a strong believer in a person’s right to privacy. I don’t believe it is right for anyone to have to give up any part of that privacy. It doesn’t matter whether it is through trickery, subterfuge, social pressure or any other method you can think up. Our private lives are sometimes the only thing [...]
Green Tech
Electric cars are green and cute but pointless
So everyone these days is jumping on the electric vehicle bandwagon like there is no tomorrow, just as they all jumped on the biofuel horseless cart before it. With car makers staking their literal futures on it; like Chevy’s Volt, to just about any other car maker. The newest one to join the cavalcade is [...]
Tech Gone Wrong
This is wrong - so very wrong
If there was one thing that movie Minority Report gained any recognition for; other than being generally panned, was its Orwellian depiction of our future under constant surveillance. Surveillance that included what we were thinking of doing at some point in the future. More often as not these days the movie title is used in [...]
Past Tech Gone Wrong Posts
Stupid Tech
Spend $400 on this and you deserve to be called stupid
I realize that people like buying silly technology type toys of which USB related things have to be the worst but $400 bucks for some sort of Feng Shui Compass? They can’t possibly be serious about this - or can they?
From the company website - because I couldn’t even start to make this crap up [...]
The Social Web
WOOHOO! Someone finally gets it
I have always maintained that social media as we currently use it is nothing more than a bullshit marketing term ...
The Social Media Connector Set
Let me start this off by saying that Chris Brogan is one smart person and I have a lot of ...
Letting the hot air out of social media
For almost the past week Hugh MacLeod has been posting some of his best cartoons drawn on the back of business ...
The Web
I've often maintained that without ubiquitous access to the internet for everyone regardless of where they live a lot of the ...
Keep your grimy paws off my ISP’s money
There are time where the 'liberal' artsy fartsy crowd really grates on my last nerve and in Canada they are ...
Forum News
PJ’s Forum Round-Up 1.12.08
It’s the first of December! Christmas is coming and the feel of presents is in the air. [...]
PJ’s Forum Round-up 24.11.08
We had a relatively subdued but good week in the forums. Nobody died in the flame fests and everyone seems reasonably sane, still. Mrs. Max has decided [..]
PJ’s Forum Round-Up 16.11.08
It took a bit but with enough beer, I was able to get through the elections. I hope things went just as well for you all. What with all of the telephone calls from the pollster [...]
Odds & Ends
A gold mine for program junkies
I love programs. That is a fact that I have never tried to hide and while my real love has to be utility programs for Windows I am also hooked [...]
Live Wave 3 Icons - Nice
I have always been an icon fanatic. It probably comes from my days as a developer and always looking for different and interesting icons to use in my software [...]
Firefox is raping my memory
I realize that just about everyone and their brother in the tech work is all infatuated with Firefox but why this browser gets such a walk [...]
Short Notes
Can I ever be wrong? You betcha….
There seems to be this underlying thought that anyone who writes a blog is some sort of expert in whatever field they have chosen to write about. Sorry but I don’t fit that bill. [...]
A guilty secret - I want a Zune
I know everyone and their brother are iPod fanatics and to them nothing can beat out this epitome of form [...]
A bit of a trip down memory lane
know I joke around a little about being a cranky old fart but there are time when I sti back and look at some of the things I’ve done in my life and I figure the tagline works out pretty good.
