I’m afraid of phones. It’s a very, very weird trait for someone as gadget happy as I am. I have a PDA, Cell phone, multiple computers, and I’m more tech savvy than about 98% of the population. Why is it I’m afraid of this relatively innocuous invention that’s over 100 years old?
Well, [...]
I’ve had a couple really weird memory lapses the last few weeks.
The first case was a mere mental slip. I live close to work, so most days I just walk. Saves gas, good exercise. All good. Last Thursday night, I caught the baking bug, baked 3 batches of cookies, and decided [...]
I recently came across an article that had to do with how people perceive happiness. Some researchers have discovered that people, in general, tend to overestimate the effects, both positive and negative, associated with a particular action. For instance, if I decide to get a new computer, I will naturally overestimate the happiness that owning [...]
I’ve been reminiscing about a peculiar personality trait of mine. For some reason, I’m never really satisfied with accepting how or why something works. One prominent example is the way that I learned HTML. I started, like most beginners, by playing with a WYSIWYG (pronounced “wizzy-wig”) editor. I could drop things into place, and the [...]
So today we’ve been going through a bunch of our server access logs, and we’ve been finding loads of people who are still infected with some sort of virus or another. Enough people that three of us are almost constantly on the phone with someone over the course of the day.
The scary part is that [...]