Category: Technology

• Sex Spam Sender Signatures Seem Strange

  I think we can all agree that the email spam folder is a godsend. It separates the wheat of actual messages from known senders from the chaff of marketing ploys for reverse mortgages and financial entreaties from rando scammers “in peril” in Chad. However, I’ve found out the hard way that sometimes messages from some of my writing and editing clients…

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  2016-10-31

  Rants, Technology

  Chad, Star Wars

• This Is What I Think About Technology In 2013

  At the risk of trapping you in a morass of platitudes, we can all agree that we have some amazing gadgetry at our fingertips in this day and age (aside: it’s now legal in 32 states to punch someone who uses the term “In this day and age.” Easily the most fatuous term ever). I mean, I still can’t…

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  2013-12-20

  Rants, Technology

  Fenway Park, iPhone

• Facebook Trends That Need To End

  It is with a lugubrious heart that I type this missive. However, in the estimable view of this blogger, there is a variety of habits, crutches and plain old crappy things on Facebook that make using it untenable. And sadly, it’s getting to the point that I may sign off for good (for the third…

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  2012-08-30

  Rants, Technology

  Barack Obama, Bill Cosby, Facebook, Jamie Oliver, Joe Biden, Pampers, William F. Buckley