Web/Tech
A brilliant app idea that I’m giving away for free. Take it. Make it. I’ll be your first customer.
Here’s my vision: I’m driving down Starr Boulevard in some tiny town in Somewhereville, USA. I come to a traffic light and stop. I remove my phone, click on the app, and instantly, I am transmitted information about the name of this street. Why Starr? Why the double R? Is the street named after a person,…
Read MoreTHE GREATEST APP RECOMMENDATION OF ALL TIME: Wakie
Brace yourselves for the greatest app recommendation that you may ever receive: Wakie, the world’s first social alarm clock. The new app, available on iPhone and Android, replaces the generic alarm clock with a friendly wake-up call from a stranger somewhere around the globe. Sign up, submit your phone number, and register as either a “Sleepy”…
Read MoreChanges to this website and blog are coming. Thoughts?
Sometime next week, this blog and my entire website will be migrating over to a new platform. I have built a new website and spent the last month duplicating content on the new site in addition to adding new material as well. The look will be different, and the interface will hopefully be better, but…
Read MoreWhy do I blog? Because it’s nearly led to national television, and it still might. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
I’ve been blogging for over ten years now. Every single day for more than a decade, I have sat down and written something for a blog. Before this blog, there was another, and before that one, there was my first, born in a blogging class at Trinity College. I am often asked why I continue…
Read MoreCurt Shilling is wrong about evolution, but his response to Internet trolls was commendable and enough to make this Yankees fan cheer.
As a New York Yankees fan – as well as someone who supports science and knows that evolution is real – I’ve never been a fan of Curt Shilling. But when Shilling took to Twitter last week to congratulate his daughter on her invitation to pitch for the Salve Regina University baseball team, Internet trolls…
Read MoreNine rules for making you more efficient with email and less of a jerk face
1. Email is often a means of informal communication. As such, you can dramatically decrease the amount of time spent with email with short, efficient replies like, ‘Thanks” and “Understood” and “Agreed.” Dispense with formalities whenever possible and increase efficiency. 2. Blind Carbon Copy (BCC) is often the tool of the passive aggressive coward. Before…
Read MoreWanted: Photographs of sofas and slippers and well appointed thermostats. Please?
My Facebook feed has been full of wine over the past couple days. Wine glasses set before roaring fires. Wine glasses being clinked in celebration. Wine glasses standing beside the spines of books and sleeping dogs and flickering candles. It’s a funny thing. I spent last night drinking cold water from a steel water bottle.…
Read MoreHack a friend’s Facebook profile. Have fun and do some good all at the same time.
I have a friend who does not passcode protect her phone. I don’t passcode protect mine, either. I feel like anyone who needs a passcode on their phone is hiding something, and I simply don’t have time for it. So I don’t blame my friend for her lack of security. In fact, I love it.…
Read MoreI want one now.
I can’t imagine a better way to increase my productivity.
Read MoreThe best use of cell phone jamming technology is not being utilized, and I don’t understand why.
In an attempt to ensure safe driving conditions during his commute to work, a Florida man used a cell phone jammer in his car to keep nearby motorists off their phones. After two years, Metro PCS reported to the FCC that every day for two years their cell towers had experienced unexplained interference near a…
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