To worry is to be. To be is to worry.
For a period of about two years, which ended five or six years ago, I wrote a weekly column of allegedly humorous rants about the use and abuse of digital technologies. Some people say that I wrote the columns weakly, not weekly, but ignore them. Only literate people say that. The publisher of the online [...]
I own two Roombas. For those of you who are not familiar with these household marvels, a Roomba is the brand name of a robotic vacuum cleaner. When you set it going, this circular-shaped wonder scurries around your rooms sucking up the filth on your floors. Because its profile is low-to-the ground, a Roomba can [...]
My day job is writing. MC Press published a collection of my humorous rants under the title BYTE-ing Satire. You don’t have to look very far on this page to find a link to buy it at Amazon. Be that as it may, what I do mostly is write marketing material “” articles, white papers, [...]
I did a Google search and found it used elsewhere, so I can’t claim originality, but I’d like to nominate “wonkified” for official adoption as a word in the English language. I’m sure that once whoever is responsible for adjudicating these things accepts the wisdom of my suggestion, people will find a number of valid [...]
I’m a downtown dweller, work out of my home and live the life of a hermit, so I rarely drive. Consequently, I never thought it worthwhile to buy a GPS navigation device for my car, a 1972 Ford Pinto that still has that new car smell and the original tires, without any tread wear. I [...]
I know I haven’t posted much here recently — a bit of writer’s block. In the meantime, while I recharge, have you read any of my Technology Rants yet? No? Why not? I’m famous for them. OK, maybe not famous, but a patient in a mental health facility in Brooklyn once emailed me to say [...]
Whenever there’s any upward pressure on home heating fuel prices, some people start worrying that even middle-class families, let alone the poor, will no longer be able to afford to heat their homes in the winter. Don’t get me wrong. I have nothing against worrying. It’s what I do best. But worrying seems so pointless [...]
Have you ever seen those Web-based ads that feature an animated human face “” I’ve only seen females, but there might be males too for all I know “” and a text box? You can type text in the text box, click a button, and the software speaks the text with full, appropriate movement of [...]