To worry is to be. To be is to worry.
Is the Internet killing attention spans? The reason I ask is, despite not being able to find a good WordPress statistics plugin that will allow me to verify my suspicion without too much effort on my part, I get the impression that the number of comments I receive is significantly lower for posts exceeding a [...]
I’m a little less than two months shy of my 57th birthday. Of course, I can’t predict when I’m going to die, but barring a medical miracle, I’m several years closer to my death than to my birth. As a result of my advancing age coupled with a bad case of rational thought, my dreams [...]
Do you know what is starting to annoy me? … Alright, alright; you’re getting to know me too well. I’ll correct that. … Do you know what is one of the very great many things that is starting to annoy me? Has this ever happened to you? You go to one of your favorite blogs. [...]
In total, companies spend billions of dollars and individuals spend millions of hours improving Internet search engines, adding new features to Web browsers, enhancing the richness of the Web media delivery methods and creating or augmenting a whole host of other Web-related technologies. I am grateful for all of the wonderful stuff that these companies [...]
According to a Web site called WorldWideWebSize.com, as of April 22, 2009, the indexed Web contained at least 21.41 billion pages-and there are probably more by the time you read this. That’s just the number of pages that had been indexed by the major search engines. Those engines find a large percentage of the content [...]
I think it’s safe to say that I’m older than the average internet user. As an old fogey, I’m not hip to all off the internet lingo. I suspect that my use of the expression “hip to all of the internet lingo” proves the point. It’s embarrassing when a young whippersnapper points out an error [...]
I’m in the midst of evaluating the feasibility of a business stratagem that I recently conceived. Without giving away too many details due to my fear of my plan being purloining, here’s a high-level overview of my idea: I am responsible for a few Web sites. I’m thinking of creating a gargantuan number of pages [...]
The Internet is an incredible invention. You have to admire its colossal power to spawn an embarrassment of riches in the global labor market. There is no doubt in my mind that we would have long ago entered a very deep recession – no, that’s wrong; it probably would have been a devastating economic depression, [...]