Before there were smartphones and before there were feature phones there were just phones. They were simple, and they worked. There were flip phones, which had a certain appeal, and there were candy-bars, which I preferred. To call my wife I would mash the 2 key for a second to activate the speed dial. (1 […]
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Rules Geeks Know
If you spend enough time talking to geeks you’re going to run into these “laws”. Geeks will use them and expect you to know what they mean. They may assume you’re dumb if you don’t. You don’t have to memorize them but it will help to at least be familiar. All credit to Wikipedia for […]
Living Up to the Hype
I’m not going to do any product reviews here because they’ve been done a million times on a million websites and because I don’t want to spend the time. I’m just going to point out a few products that have been hyped up like mad and actually live up to the hype (based on my […]
Acronyms
For some reason I started reading about acronyms on wikipedia, dictionary.com, merriam-webster.com, etc. At first is seems like there’s not much to it – take the first letter of a bunch of words, put them together, and you have an acronym. Oh, but there’s so much more. FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, that’s an acronym, […]