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The best results I’ve seen of yesterday’s “internet blackout” to protest SOPA and PIPA? The Oatmeal’s brilliant anti-SOPA/PIPA animation (featuring a koala and a goat having sexy times) got mainstream news coverage and it appears that the blackout actually had a positive effect in turning more people (including politicians) against SOPA and PIPA. Of course, correlation [...]
Tomorrow, I will be joining the protest against SOPA and PIPA by having this website go dark. If you have a WordPress site, you too can go dark using this Go Dark plugin. For some excellent coverage on the heinous SOPA and PIPA bills, check out Boing Boing.
My place of work recently ordered some new e-readers and tablets for staff to use. I had the opportunity to take a Kindle Fire home for the weekend to play around with it and see how it works. After a couple of days using it, here are my impressions. As an e-reader, it’s pretty sweet. [...]
As much as I love to talk, I really don’t like talking on the phone. There are a few people I like to chat with, but for the most part, I prefer getting emails and texts to phone calls. Part of it is because I generally have some social anxiety when calling someone or answering [...]
After last week’s announcement that publisher HarperCollins is putting a cap on the number of times their e-books can be checked out from OverDrive, I’ve been even angrier than I usually am about the way publishers and distributors screw consumers and users of the rights they have with non-digital content. One of the main reasons [...]
At this morning’s weekly Web Content Team meeting, we were informed by our supervisor that IT has decided to buy us all new laptops to replace our desktop PCs. I was very excited about this and mentioned my last blog post. We then talked about shifting my cubicle workspace a bit so that I can [...]
As many people know, I’m pretty lazy. I’m a constant procrastinator and I frequently have to really push myself to get up off my tuchas and do something. I got to work this morning feeling really motivated to knock stuff off my to-do list and Get Things Done. But as soon as I was situated [...]
My mother bought herself a new Kindle for Christmas and passed her Kindle 2 along to me. I have some pretty major problems with e-books, but I’m generally not one to turn down a gift, so here I am with a Kindle. I read my first book on the Kindle recently. I have to admit, [...]
I picked Morgan up at her mom’s yesterday. On the drive back to my place, I looked at my odometer and saw that my car was close to turning over to 10,000 miles. I felt like this was kind of a big deal, so I asked Morgan to grab my backpack from the back seat [...]
