Tag Archives: internet
Vacation is just not the same without Wi-Fi
Yes. I am officially addicted to the internet. I suppose having my Crackberry connecting me to the etherworld should be enough, but no. So, here I am in a coffeehouse stealing wi-fi airtime and getting my fix.
But in my defense, I have a deadline and the noise of the surf outside my sliding glass doors is a bit distracting.
*sigh*
Let it be known that as soon as the sun shone down ever so brightly, I closed the lid and ran outside, espresso in hand….
next stop?
beach.
and picture downloading
You can take the geek out of the …
When TWITTERING gets creepy- WITH UPDATE
I saw this twitter today and it totally creeped me out.
I know how some people are joking on there, and how some are looking for attention and how some are marketing themselves.. and how some of us use it to connect with friends.
But that whole cry out touched me, and I wonder if there is something there and how would you help and how would you know.. I mean are there Twitter police? A Twitter Emergency squad?
Someone who will arrive at your designated Twitter-fied GPS location to pull the knife out of your hand, the pills …
What's the secret password? And "unfriending."
So, because I friend EVERYONE on Facebook, I was faced with the new problem of “unfriending” someone, actually a few someones… but I wanted to be sure they didn’t know. Repercussions and all that. So, in googling for an answer to my, “Will someone know if I unfriend them on FACEBOOK question,” I found a whole page of people asking for help in stealing passwords.
Yes. Stealing.
Passwords for email accounts, for Facebook and Myspace, for instant messenger accounts. I don’t know why I was surprised, I’m sure people hack into accounts all the time, but it seemed so creepy. …
When People Ask WHY Bad Things Happen. Remind them this.
The best love songs are written by the broken-hearted.
The most innovative scientific and medical breakthroughs come from people who have experienced first hand loss and tragedy.
Stated so well in this 2001 NYTimes article by Lisa Belkin :
But though society may ask, “How could you?” the only question patients and families ask is, “How could we not?”
It is the kind of talk heard with every scientific breakthrough, from the first heart transplant to the first cloned sheep. We talk like this because we are both exhilarated and terrified by what we can do, and we wonder, with …
