--Update--see below. Better half bought a new printer recently to replace the bloated HP device we bought only a short while ago. Even though worst-writer is the family system administrator, I don't print anymore so I gladly turned the task of print-media over to the head of household. Which meant that every other month there was a frustrated … Continue reading WindowsXP Stuck
Tag: Technology
The Masters of the Switches
Why is it, dear worst-reader, that the older I get the easier it is to distract me? I mean, it happens all the time. When I'm walking Beckett, the killer pug, I lose focus of the little guy whenever any female passes by in a pair of jeans. When I'm putting up a Xmas tree, hanging those … Continue reading The Masters of the Switches
True Greatness
"I told my dad someday I'm gonna own a big computer." -Steve Wozniak. http://youtu.be/pJif4i9NRdI
Interwebnet Insecurity
Oh, dear worst-reader, here yet another exchange I recently had with a dear old friend. As you know, from other exchanges (here and here), sometimes we get places--intellectual places. But other times we just ramble on. The point is, ramble, worst-writer. Yeah, that's the point. Anywho. I know you're probably wondering if any of this … Continue reading Interwebnet Insecurity
Security Data Ukraine
Another contribution to the Interwebnets containing an email exchange with an old friend. At times this friend brings the best out of me but other times s/he does not. Nomatter. The point is to think, express those thoughts, get them down for re-reading and then figure out what drove worst-moi to write/contribute in the first place. … Continue reading Security Data Ukraine
Examples Of Ignorance
It's 2014--if you've forgotten. Or maybe you avoid the clock all the same. Nomatter, dear worst-reader. For today we have yet another example of American't ignorance and how that ignorance rules/governs everything. Or maybe not. First. The situation. Or should I call it: Reality? Either way, in 2014 a huge chunk of America still has … Continue reading Examples Of Ignorance
Scavenger Econ
Oh, dear worst-reader, we are living in scavenger times. These are times where all that is left are scraps. You know, the scraps left over by the other half. You know, the haves and the have-mores. Oh, how they laugh and giggle as we jostle around, tinker to nowhere, continue on our beloved pathway of … Continue reading Scavenger Econ
Happy Failure
Schadenfreude? Maybe. Read link to article below and the links it links to. I know that wishing ills to others has its payback. But I guess I'm willing to accept that consequence. At least in this case. What better example is there of the greater-than-though meritless workforce of my grand united mistakes than those who … Continue reading Happy Failure
My Dotcom Book
As bad as things were at the end of the 20th century, the beginning of the 21st century is obviously worse. But there was some good in the 1990s that's easy to forget. Anyone remember the Dotcom boom? I'm still waiting for the definitive book to be written about why the new-economy was so easily gobbled up by … Continue reading My Dotcom Book
Ronald McDonald Meets The Amazon
Bezos gave away a children's book to the audience to accompany intro of new smart phone. So. Like. Does that mean he's trying to get the kids hooked like a certain fast-food seller did with a clown? Nomatter. New phone looks great, very impressed with evolving eco-system Amazon products are connected to. But there is … Continue reading Ronald McDonald Meets The Amazon
Is This Huge
NSA spying? Privacy? Digital footprint? Why isn't this being covered more? Is there any other hardware maker that has ever offered something like this? It is in its infancy but the more I worst-think about it the more worst-baffled I get. Apple is offering a way to protect your privacy by randomly generating identifier codes (MAC … Continue reading Is This Huge
Obsoletism 101
Even though worst-writer knows they're coming, he's relieved there were no hardware announcements at today's WWDC14, Apple's developer conference. Reason? I dread all Apple announcements because they are only another indication that the krapp I've bought so-far is that much closer to what Apple does best: making krapp obsolete. Sure. In a day or three or maybe in a … Continue reading Obsoletism 101
Up Till The End
He does a great job up till the end. Because. There's no need to ask the apathetic to do anything. For if they did do anything. Then there wouldn't be apathy. Or something like that. http://youtu.be/fpbOEoRrHyU
Confused Success
As a locked-in take-my-money Apple slave (not to demean the real slaves putting these devices together), I have no fear in the following claim: there is love to be found for Microsoft's Surface. Last year, with my 2010 MacBookPro reaching it's limits, I had to make a decision. First, even though a new MacBookAir was in the plan, I … Continue reading Confused Success
Worst Question #287
Dear WorstWriter, It seems as if the move in corporate america is to host clouds that do NOT access / use the public internet. I would say all the technology that has made the internet what it is means it is time to employ this technology "off internet" for the future movement of data. Leave … Continue reading Worst Question #287
Laugh It Off
Why I indirectly use Facebook and other FB wannabees. For me, FB first caught my attention because of all the share links available on whatever website I was reading. Those buttons were initially a great way to manage bookmarks as up to that point I had been using Delicious, which is cumbersome and monotonous. Share buttons have subsequently been replaced … Continue reading Laugh It Off
Newz #001
Heard today that blogging was dying. Can that be? worst-Writer's compulsion to write has been waning, that's for sure. But does that mean there's no more room for worst-Writing? Maybe they should just change the name. Indeed. Just change it from blogging to WORSTWRITING. It's a lot better than trying to explain to young dunces … Continue reading Newz #001
Papa Bear Tech Hug
https://youtu.be/r028SroE6Uk First post in 2014. Happy worst-new-year! Now. On to the more important worst-stuff. Don't you just wanna hug this guy! For worstWriter, Kim Dotcom, aka Kim Schmitz from Kiel, is a rare case of self-aggrandisement that is A-OK. I really luv this guy. Reason? No matter what he does, no matter what drives him, he … Continue reading Papa Bear Tech Hug
Hungry For More
http://youtu.be/XVZgZSSJtz0 As mentioned here, I was hungry for more when I finished Isaacson's book on Steve Jobs. The book really didn't get into anything down & dirty about the man or Apple, which made it a disappointment. Obviously I'm not alone in wanting more about Steve Jobs and also more about the nit & gritty … Continue reading Hungry For More
Other Means
Digital dark ages in Germaninland? Or as Angie likes to put it (and I'm paraphrasing): To Germans the Internet is Neuland. With that in mind, I've been considering getting a tablet for a while now. But a few things have been holding me back. For one, my experience with a third gen Kindle hasn't been all that … Continue reading Other Means
Awash In Projection
As I've waddled down the creek of trying-to-say, failing to say before, one of the main reason I'm skeptical regarding the significance of Edward Snowden and his data dump--which we all have to wait to see based on advertising revenues of those who posses the data--is that I'm not sure what exactly motivated him to … Continue reading Awash In Projection
Braver Soul
There's too much focus on "whistle blowing" these days turning the whole thing into a dizzying drama of silliness. Which makes it all (conveniently) very distracting. Since it's common knowledge that spying has been part of our everyday lives since 2001, that is, since American'ts stood stupefied in ignorant-bliss to the ramifications of the Patriot Act, … Continue reading Braver Soul
Innovation Dead On Arrival
Subtitle: Real Digital Pop. Update: Berlin Polizei want the perpetrators. Go figure. How to kill innovation? Worst-writer needs to write a book about how they killed innovation. Reason? I think I've lived through the killing. That's right. I worked for at least two dot-coms back in the day. And I have no qualms in saying … Continue reading Innovation Dead On Arrival
Wozed
There is a culture worth not forgetting. Especially when you know that culture is being forced to reach its end. For you see. There is an alternate universe to the baby boomer war-mongers that are going to be our demise. Indeed. There was once a group of hippies, even though some weren't exactly hippies. Well. … Continue reading Wozed
Google Skynet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pmPa_KxsAM&feature=share Watched part of 2013 Google I/O yesterday. Wow. That was weird. Is it me or does Larry Page look a little like an ageing Terminator from Skynet that didn't pass quality control? He certainly has a voice of a Terminator (caused by vocal chord paralysis). I was wondering if, at the end of his keynote … Continue reading Google Skynet
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