Last week I met with the preacher of my mom’s church again, for a bit of lunch and some talk. We ended up not talking about religion hardly at all, which I found surprising but not unwelcome. Our discussion veered off, somehow or another, to education. I think that he asked me how classes were [...]
Internet
The internet is not the solution for everything.
I like the internet – a lot. I use it all the time, to do all sorts of things: keep in touch with friends, learn new things, keep up with the news, play games. But I do try to maintain a little bit of common sense when it comes to the internet. Is it a [...]
Social networking sites – what’s the big deal?
I’ve been watching the hype over social networking sites this year (and before, in fact), and I must say: I don’t get it. The social networking sites don’t do anything for me. For a while I had a MySpace page, which I admittedly neglected; I have since deleted my account there. I now have a [...]
Google April Fools pranks for 2007
As always, Google has some pretty nifty April Fools pranks this year. Previous pranks included the Google Gulp, Google hiring folks to go to the moon, the Google Mentalplex, and the hilarious PigeonRank.
For this year, I’ve seen two so far:
On the Gmail login page, they’ve announced a new feature: Gmail Paper. The concept is fairly [...]
One free Joost invitation available
Hey everyone. I’ve got one more invitation left for Joost. Here’s a snippet about the project:
Joost™ is a new way of watching TV on the internet, which uses new and established technologies to provide the best of both the internet and TV worlds. We’re in the process of making it as TV-like as we can, [...]
