I’d like to be in on the ground floor just once. I’ve pretty much been late to all the major parties. Checkered Vans. Coldplay. Instagram. YOLO. And, now it’s apparently too late to be hip to bitcoins. The Winklevoss Twins are buying it all up and the market has seen the digitial currency rise to […]
Category: technology
Glitch in the Matrix
Every new generation of the iphone, introduced, has more bugs than a Looney Tune. Or a coon dog watching an episode of Breaking Bad. Google maps sent people to an airport runway. The first people that buy a new technology get hosed. Costs more. Works less. Like a 3-D television. Two things are true about […]
Penmanship Wrecked
As I mentioned, we were in Colonial Williamsburg for Thanksgiving. It was a really, really special trip with our extended family. We saw a LOT of old things. Quills, wood burning stoves, carriages, hatchets, brick oven fires. Bed pans. You know what the colonialists might have preferred? I don’t know. Microsoft Word; a 2500 watt, […]
The Fourth Front
So the cyber terrorist organization, Anonymous, has been participating in the Israel/Gaza conflagration by defacing some 700+ Israeli websites. As it turns out, their typical method is just to flood the sites with data until they crash the domain. Most of the websites, however, have nothing to do with the Israeli government, military, or infrastructure. […]
Mayhem
What a week. First, no pun intended, but I’ve been way under the weather. Second, according to national news accounts a guy in a ski mask stole my SSN from the South Carolina Department of Revenue. Is that because it’s actually unseasonably cold in his apartment that he wears a ski mask or are cyber […]
Jobs Report
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Live Blonging Verizon
I did a live song blogging event at Verizon today for their employee appreciation week. Verizon’s theme for the day was “Diversity Energizes.” We built a song together over the course of 6 sessions. As usual, we recorded a live bridge with the audience and I took relevant topics to freestyle the verses. Verse 1 […]
Electric Bill
In honor of NBC’s coverage of the London Games, I recorded this entry yesterday but am offering it on tape delay only now. So, anytime that something happens to “half” of India, it’s a pretty big deal. Same with populations of “all the ocean creatures;” “all the women who watch ‘Chelsea Lately’;” and “all the […]
Getting the Band Back Together
On the night we lose a legend in music and television hosting, in Dick Clark, there is some consolation that we are now toeing the line of a technology that can replicate and preserve and scrapbook in pixilated dimension our heroes of music. If you haven’t yet seen it, please immediately YouTube the hologram performance […]
Frankensteinin’
SOPA winds up being pretty close-to-home-hitting. If you haven’t heard, there is a bill before Congress to give additional law enforcement powers in order to police intellectual property piracy on the internet. Think going to jail for your beach trip YouTube slide show set to Billy Joel’s “These Are the Times to Remember.” On Wednesday, […]
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