Category Archives: Web/Tech

January 17, 2013

My son is not a USB device

I do a lot of writing with my infant son on my lap. Yesterday he was chewing on the cord that connects my phone to the laptop. Unbeknownst to me, he eventually worked his way up to the end of … Continue reading →

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January 9, 2013

Why do I use Twitter? Because I am a reader first.

Many authors have little use for the pretension of hermetic distance and never accepted a historically specific idea of what it means to be a writer. This was a quote from a New York Times piece on why authors use … Continue reading →

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November 27, 2012

The power and ubiquity of the Twitter

My wife and I are listening to Jeffrey Toobin’s THE OATH: THE OBAMA WHITE HOUSE AND THE SUPREME COURT. In learning about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s views on gender equality, I found myself wanting to ask her about … Continue reading →

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November 12, 2012

My toddler is a crack addict. Even worse, your Amber Alert system is still operating in 1997.

My wife and I took our daughter to a local grocery store on Saturday morning to register her for the Amber Alert program. In order to register a child for Amber Alert, the child’s height and weight is measured and … Continue reading →

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October 22, 2012

The dashboard is no place to roll back technology in favor of tradition

My rental car from the weekend, a Chrysler 200, was equipped with only an analog clock in the dashboard, even though the radio mounted directly below the clock had a digital display. I can’t begin to imagine the amount of … Continue reading →

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September 13, 2012

Marriage deconstruction tool

In 2011, Facebook was cited as a contributing factor in one-third of divorces.  The most common reasons cited as evidence were inappropriate messages to members of the opposite sex, separated spouses posting nasty comments about each other, and Facebook friends … Continue reading →

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September 7, 2012

The Internet makes it a very small world

Yesterday I wrote about Erin DiMeglio, the first girl to play quarterback in a Florida high school football game. Uncertain about how I would react if my daughter asked to play football, I wrote a post parsing out some of … Continue reading →

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August 20, 2012

The iPhone needs a better name

The device in my pocket is called an iPhone, but I’m starting to believe that this is the worst name possible for it. At one time, the primary function of a mobile telephone was to serve as a telephone, but … Continue reading →

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July 30, 2012

2012: Products I can’t live without

Back in 2010, inspired by lists created by tech geeks like Michael Arrington and Kevin Rose, I created a list of products I could not live without. Today I present my updated list of products I could not live without. … Continue reading →

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July 26, 2012

Does Wikipedia have a a woman problem or do women have a Wikipedia problem?

Torie Bosch of Slate wrote a piece about a recent debate on Wikipedia over the validity of an entry on Kate Middleton’s bridal gown as a means of illustrating the gender gap that exists amongst Wikipedia’s citizen editors. Only 9 … Continue reading →

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