I have always preferred the old-fashioned brick and mortar kind of shopping when it comes to buying things like computers, phones and so on, you know, the usual assortment of home and personal or business electronics that we’ve all come to depend on so much.
It’s not even Uncle Bubba talking about his new job making tv stands, It’s a telemarketer. Worse than that, it’s a prerecorded message with somebody reading a telemarketing script.
Contrary to what a lot of people will say, life out here in the sticks is actually pretty good. Everything is on a slower pace and there isn’t nearly as much traffic and pollution as you have in just about any larger city.
The birth and death of a really useful application in one day.
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There was a time that I couldn’t imagine living in a rural area. Life outside the “big city” was unimaginable. I figured that since the city had everything it only made sense to stick [...]
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One thing that I can say with an absolute certainty is that whoever decided the power limitations and signal capacity for cellular phones did not and never has lived in a rural area and tried to use one. If they had, we wouldn’t need things like a portable cell phone [...]
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Recently I got an email asking me to fax something or other to somebody and while the thing itself was some vile spam thing that I don’t normally give the time of day, the part about faxing caught my interest just a bit.
Frankly I haven’t seen an actual fax machine in [...]
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There’s an article on the Washington Post site that takes a look at the potential of a world with RFID chips embedded in just about anything you can name.
A world in which reader devices, most of which would be connected to the Internet, all over the place. These readers would [...]
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Looking over this site actually takes me back a whole bunch of years to when an electronics company had a “battery of the month” club. It was a gimmick promotion where they would give a free battery to customers who came in to the store and got the card punched. [...]
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Ok, I don’t think that they actually cut off the FBI’s phones but what they have done is to disconnect phone lines that were set up to deliver evidence to send surveillance results to the FBI because the bills hadn’t been paid.
According to an AP story about this, There’s also been [...]
