For children today, the word “pause” is such a natural part of language that they use it in things unrelated to devices. One day my 7-year-old son and I pretended to be Transformers while he got ready for bed. Naturally, Optimus Prime couldn’t very well tell Ironhide “I love you” and tuck him into his… (read more)
The free app from WordPress still gives me an error when I try to view a list a previous posts in edit view. A nifty app called Blogpress will show those, but then fails when I try to publish a post. That latter is even mors frustrating because I paid for it after reading glowing… (read more)
Steve Jobs and his minions have made it very easy to have fun with a portable computer — and very simple to sit and consume like good little, umm… consumers. Despite his best efforts, I have survived my first two weeks with the marvelous iPod Touch without buying an app or a song or a… (read more)
(Note: I have added a “notify me of follow-up comments” feature) I decided it was time for me to emerge from the cave and get a personal mobile phone. I was going to text, access the web, and send excruciatingly cute and artsy photos and video to all my friends — from anywhere! I went… (read more)
The Internet is making more people feel like Charlie Brown than ever before. Or maybe it’s just me. Remember when Charlie would go to his mailbox hoping to find a letter, only to be disappointed by an empty box? It happens to me when I check my Gmail, then my Yahoo! Mail, and then my… (read more)