Memiary Reminds You What You’re Doing With Your Life Memiary is an online diary for you to post about what you did today.  It allows you to post up to five items a day, and over time you could have your life chronicled in its gory detail, or its complete dullness.  Recording your daily activities [...]

I taught for nine years as an English teacher, and tack on an additional year as a computer teacher, and I’ve arrived at several reasons why teachers resist using technology with their classes: 1) It’s time consuming and a waste of time, 2) They feel intimidated by their students’ knowledge, and 3) the final products [...]

In Age of Impatience, Cutting PC Start Time – NYTimes.com We’ve spent so much time trying to make our computers go faster, run applications better, store more data, and stream video more seamlessly.  It’s pretty interesting that our expectations for the start-up of a computer is never questioned.  In fact, we restart our computers so [...]

We all know that advertisers lie, that most of the commercials on television and the radio tell only part of the truth.  But Apple’s recent switcher ads are tweaking the truth more than ever.  The most recent series of ads talks about how Microsoft is spending all their money on advertising and not on fixing [...]

Often times I will try a piece of software or a product briefly and fail to see the point.  Not wanting to keep it installed, I remove it immediately.  The intention of the software or program is not initially clear.  This is the case for the Portable version of Firefox.  I had heard of it, [...]