Did go to Dr. Bailey’s Retirement Dinner Saturday night (see 2 posts down). Was not as bad as I expected. Got to hide in a back room making name tags for people whose name tag was missing or incorrect. About 15 minutes after people had sat down to eat, Joe and I snuck out to grab…
Interesting Flash animation:Â Who is piiq.com? – – – – – – – – I hate Flash… just thought you would like to know.
An old friend sent me an instant message. Amazes me how many become more and more internet savvy. Perhaps soon I will have have to abandon the internet at work as they take more and more of my time? Naw…
This is pretty cool… they help others keep up with your email address changes. Veri Post
Netiquette or really any form of etiquette is not common sense. People in general do not know how to behave themselves in foreign cultures. As much as we might hate to admit it, cybercultures do abound and each have rules of behavior. They may not be posted, but members of the society know them. Many…
I love web logs. Especially ones that are convenient. Don’t you? My web page http://sneezypb.tripod.com/ is now updated…
Just checked to see if I qualify for DSL… low and behold, sure enough, I do… yet people who are closer to the central office than I cannot get DSL. Go figure! Lots of stuff to troubleshoot today. Can’t wait to break this message board thing… 🙂
Something I guess I intuitively knew, but never really considered is that online communities are exactly that… communities. Consider that these places have areas for interacting with other members. People do the usual thing like talk to each other. I think the key is the results of the conversation… they argue, aid other, seek info,…
Some interesting security articles… AIM Is Insecure (duh!?) and some details of the Microsoft October hack tell-all.