Category: Computers


  • Okay, there are now officially too many blogs when fictional characters have blogs. Case in point, the GEICO Gecko.

  • Playing online Halo PC is not really fun when there are superb (professional quality) players at a game and make sure everyone else knows they can beat you at whim. I played on a server last weekend where one side was a clan. The other side on which I ended up player were obviously not…

  • Netiquette

    Online etiquette, aka netiquette, has always been a touchy topic. Thankfully, there are lots of resources out there for people who are interested in learning about how to properly behave online such as NetManners.com. Now, how to tactfully tell people face-to-face they should consult such resources? 🙂

  • Even though I have blogs at LJ, Xanga, MySpace, and Friendster, I had to try to ressucitate my old main blog for Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric.

  • Robert Orben – “To err is human–and to blame it on a computer is even more so.”

  • Since so many academically minded individuals read this blog, I thought some of you might be interested in this web service called CiteULike. The idea is to bookmark the academic journal articles you visit and get the reference information more easily. Having gotten out of the academic research game, I really do not know whether…

  • I learned about Friendster’s new blogs through an article at The Social Software Weblog. It gave me a reason to look at Friendster again. I have not gotten any friend requests or other messages so it kind of fell off my radar.

  • The things virus writers put to get people to infect thier computers… You think it’s funny? You are stupid idiot!!! I’ll send the attachment to your ISP and then I’ll be watching how you will go to jail, punk!!! Can ya dig it?

  • Got an email with an attachment name “file.pif” which classically indicates a virus, right? The body of the message? Are you a spammer? (I found your email on a spammer website!?!?) It is stuff like this that makes me feel sorry for the people at work who have to answer questions about technical problems. I…