Writings, Reviews, Cultural Criticism
Frank liked his new computer. His son Jimmy bought it for his 65th birthday. It came fully loaded—and with all the peripherals to boot. It had a fast CPU and a big flatscreen monitor. You could listen to music or watch a movie on it, scan pictures, run them off on a nice colour printer, record your voice, chat on the webcam. It was a real beauty.
Metatags are declassé. The big search engines haven”t used them for 6 yrs. now. Anybody can put “god, love, jesus” in their metatags while the img src tag points to a jpg of a dwarf in flagrante delicto with a dog.
My son came up to me and said: “Hey Dad, listen to my new ring tone.” He opened his phone, pushed a button, and held it up for me to listen. I was expecting another piece of music, maybe something loud, or something with a pulsing rhythm. I waited. But there was nothing.
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Before Christmas, Rogers was advertising 6 months free on a 2 year family plan. With 2 teenagers who are getting harder and harder to keep track of, maybe it was time to join the 21st century and equip the whole family with cell phones.
It’s been only 10 years since the first browsers (Mozilla & then Netscape) were widely distributed, making the internet readily accessible to average computer users. Immediately, early adoptees, futurists, & pundits announced wild possibilities for a radical social realignment. They declared that, like Rocky Balboa, the little guy had a shot at the title…
Looking back on some of my earliest rants, I see that I was personal, and reading them now makes me wince (a little like watching an interview of Anne Heche shortly after she had broken up with Ellen Degeneres).
This is a follow–up to my entry on BitTorrent. I have another theory about why BitTorrent doesn’t work. According to Wired, BitTorrent’s creator, Bram Cohen, has Asperger’s syndrome.
Some would have us believe that this snazzy P2P app is for the information age what newsprint was to movable type. And so I decided to see what all the fuss was about.