It’s Fri­day after­noon and you are star­ing aim­lessly out of the win­dow pray­ing for the week­end to come. Face it, you are not work­ing. Want some­thing fun to do, that will not get you in trou­ble by those in charge of mon­i­tor­ing your web traf­fic? (com­pany big brother) Try 55 Ways to have fun with […]

I could not resist post­ing some­thing about this story from USA Today.  It seems Dustin Dia­mond, a.k.a. Screech from the show “Saved by the Bell,” is sell­ing T-shirts to keep his home out of fore­clo­sure.  Was this taken from a left­over script of the show?  He is try­ing to sell 30,000 shirts at $15.00 each […]

Just days ago I was telling you to check out Pandora.com, what I con­sider to be one of the trea­sures of the Inter­net. The amaz­ing music site has since updated its inter­face, mak­ing it even more fun use. First, Pan­dora made it eas­ier to give songs the thumb up or down, the fea­ture that helps […]

Dear Pan­dora, Are you hir­ing?  Check out this post from the Pan­dora web site.   It dis­cusses the peo­ple behind the Pan­dora “Music Genome Project.”  The team of employ­ees is respon­si­ble for lis­ten­ing to the songs that are played on Pan­dora and then clas­si­fy­ing them based on their indi­vid­ual char­ac­ter­is­tics.  They dis­sect music for a […]

I was watch­ing the NBA finals last night, (no, I don’t know why) when I noticed a com­mer­cial for A&W Restau­rants.  The crux of the com­mer­cial was that they were the patri­otic choice for fast food because they use 100% Amer­i­can Beef.  Accord­ing to the com­mer­cial some of their com­peti­tors allegedly use Aus­tralian beef.  They […]

The House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives fol­lowed the lead of giant tele­com providers and pow­er­ful lob­by­ists by pass­ing the COPE Act. This act con­tained no pro­vi­sions to pro­tect “Net Neu­tral­ity,” putting the Inter­net one step closer to being rad­i­cally reshaped for the worse. An amend­ment pro­posed by MA Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Ed Markey, which included mea­sures focused on ensuring […]

Last sum­mer I read the won­der­ful book by David Allen, Get­ting Things Done. The book helped to answer many of my ques­tions regard­ing how to man­age the grow­ing demands of life. The down­side of the book is that since com­plet­ing it last sum­mer, I have been search­ing for just the right tool to help me […]