Step 1: Purchase iPad2 for $500 Step 2: Drop on tile floor to shatter screen Step 2a: Sweep up shards of glass off the floor Step 3: Call AppleCare and find out that it’s not covered under warranty since it was broken through “negligence”. Step 4: Decide that Apple’s out of warranty repair option ($300) is too expensive to fix a device that costs $500 brand new. Step 5: Purchase 3rd party touch screen digitizer [...]

“The Digg Effect” refers to the massive amounts of traffic that Digg would send to the sites hosting it’s front page articles. For those in the crowd, Digg is a social news aggregation site where articles are submitted and then the general populous “Diggs” them up or down.  The algorithms are unknown and changing, but the general idea is that enough people Digg your stuff fast enough, you end up on the front page of [...]

I’m fond of telling my wife that computers only do what you tell them to, but twice in the last week, my work laptop proved me wrong. Last week, the wireless device suddenly disappeared. It wasn’t in the Device Manager, it wasn’t in my Network Connections Properties window, it wasn’t anywhere. I didn’t tell it to disappear. A few days later, it came back, but had lost it’s driver, so I had to go to [...]

A few quick thoughts on yesterday’s primaries. It’s not secret that I’ve been supporting Mitt in my own small ways, but it’s been acknowledged many times that if you’re looking for a conservative who supports the three traditional conservative pillars, Mitt Romney is your man. Sure McCain is gobbling up lots of the independent votes, but the number of Republicans voting for McCain says one of two things: Either Americans in general are getting less [...]

Whether it’s deliberate or accidental, I’ve been reminded several times in the last few months that you can’t believe everything you read in the social news. Those who do it on purpose seek the sensationalism needed to create Digg-able linkbait. This is by far the more atrocious sin, but many bloggers simply neglect to check their facts. Far too many people assume that because they see it on their social news site of choice, it [...]