There are Facebook friends and then there are “Facebook friends,” and many reasons other than true friendship for “friending” someone. And it’s even a more complex decision when you decide to “unfriend” someone. A lot depends on how seriously they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A friend of my husband’s shared his “Bill Gates the early years” story with me recently. We were just chatting while we waited for my husband to get off a conference call. We eventually wound up at W.E.’s place and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In today’s comic, the Dude decides to cash in by selling an ebook for $19.95 that reveals the SIMPLE secret of being a great musician. Like a number of those download deals it merely tells you the same thing everyone[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This comic was inspired by me breathing new life into my husband’s 23 inch (uhhhhhh) Apple monitor. He got it with a pre-Intel G3 that now seems like a dinosaur and won’t run a lot of the newer software. It’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Since the dawn of standard web feed protocols such as RSS, ATOM, etc., the number of sites offering email subscriptions has gone down. Email is viewed by the new generation as hopelessly archaic. Tix-Comix has had a feed and a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Seriously. I thought my cybersquatting on BadWebcomics might draw a little more flame than it has. Maybe today’s frustrated uberintelligent internet guys (FUIG’s) just aren’t as badass as they used to be back in the good old days (think 2002.)[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The whole social interwebs thing is very nuanced, and even though I’ve been doing internet since before there was an internet, I only understand the broad strokes of online social behavior. Schooled by the daughter, several times.
It’s weird. I just rearranged my email and I realized that I had been automatically ignoring several lists I subscribed to, like, five years ago. People are just lazy like that. The lists also don’t know when to quit. No[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Don’t burst my bubble! I kept hearing about this “new twitter” that only “certain” people had enabled. Bah humbug. It looks the same as ever to me. Twitter is just twitter no matter how you paint it. Then yesterday the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s getting almost to this point! On the one hand, what if there was a filter to prevent lame stuff. Wouldn’t that improve our lives by filtering out so much lame stuff that goes by. On the other hand, how[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…