Posted August 12, 2015in Tech Talk
One of the worst sins in rock and roll is singing your band’s name in a song. Nothing rings more lame or inauthentic, which is bizarre because in hip-hop, rappers are constantly saying their name. In fact, some of the biggest rappers of all-time made a name for themselves by
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Posted August 05, 2015in Tech Talk
Every generation has something that puzzles the preceding generations, be it gay marriage, Twitter, blogs, computers, hip-hop, video games, punk rock, etc. While this list only spans recent history, I’m willing to bet the trend extends all the way back to the discovery of fire and the creation of the
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Posted July 29, 2015in Tech Talk
The Internet is not immune to embarrassing trends. Whether we’re talking America Online chat rooms or keeping a Friendster profile well past 2004, there are dozens of shifts in online communication that, in hindsight, were just silly. Today, we don’t need hindsight to understand that the ridiculous web-enabled discourse of
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Posted July 22, 2015in Tech Talk
The airline industry is one of the most treacherous. Dozens of airlines have gone under or declared bankruptcy, and few of them run what can be deemed admirable operations. Case in point, on July 1, the United States Justice Department announced it was investigating the four largest domestic airlines for
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Posted July 15, 2015in Tech Talk
When exactly does good enough become too good? Most of us have the memory of coming home from a night of trick-or-treating on Halloween and gorging ourselves on sugary treasures. At first it’s delicious, but eventually it becomes sickening. Just as hard as it is to stop devouring unlimited chocolate
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Posted July 08, 2015in Tech Talk
If you happen to be a website administrator, the last few months have probably driven you to drink. You’ve spent years building up recognition as a source of quality content or a website with a specific utility, and then the winds of web change blew, and everything you’ve worked so
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Posted July 01, 2015in Tech Talk
When cell phone technology first made its public debut in the early 1980s, the technology was revolutionary. Sure, there had been mobile two-way radios, but nothing like the ability to walk down the street with a cordless phone in your hand and make a cross-planet call. But as with all
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Posted June 24, 2015in Tech Talk
No need to adjust your television, it’s true — technology is improving at what seems to be an impossible rate. And, truthfully, that pace will only keep accelerating. Since the worldwide web first became a public tool in the early 1990s, technology has proliferated and become refined in virtually every
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Posted June 17, 2015in Tech Talk
Thus far, 2015 has been a photographer’s dream. Quality equipment is cheap and abundant, picture taking — once restricted to the number of exposures on a reel of film — is practically limitless thanks to electronic media. And, thanks to online social networks, photos can be shared around the world
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Posted June 10, 2015in Tech Talk
Some companies are synonymous with the industry they are in. If you’re in the South, Coke represents all sodas. Before the tech boom of the 2000s, Microsoft was pretty much the only name in the software or computing world. Since Microsoft’s falling from the top of the mountain, the lasting
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