Lately I’ve been in a couple conversations regarding online conversions. Are they happening? Yes and by the millions according to sites like GodRev (see Joy in Heaven). Using GodRev as the example, they take people through a process of Knowing God where visitors go through a multimedia rich 7-...

Back on October 7th, 2007 I wrote a piece about Dell closing a U.S. call center in which 500 folks lost their jobs. [ Original post here ] Some people responded to the article in a negative tone citing their unfortunate experiences with Dell. The main focus was of those who commented was to share th...

Sexting is sharing nude or partial nude photos of yourself with others on your cell phone. Teens are doing this but do not understand the dangers of doing it. Case in point is what happened to one teen who sent nude photos of herself to her boyfriend. Cute at first until they broke up. The boyfriend...

Apparently, disposable cellphones are the new color TVs. K-Lo, and a lot of other people, are all worked up over the fact that one of the guys in line at a soup kitchen where Michelle Obama was volunteering the other day was shown in news photos holding a cellphone. Where Do You Send the Bill? Ameri...

The folks at Marvell have a new miniature computer that is about the size of a network power adapter. The mini computer uses any Linux based operating system which uses the 2.6 kernel. The small computer uses a Marvell Kirkwood processor running at 1.2 GHz, 512 MB each of flash and DRAM. Also includ...

By Luke Anderson I always love a good conspiracy theory. There’s nothing quite like diving into the complex possibilities of what our government or some large company might be cooking up. Well the best one that I’ve heard recently is concerning those fancy little DTV converter boxes that...

The sky is falling! Google Gmail servers were down for a few hours. After reading some of the blog reports concerning what happened, Google having issues was a great catastrophe. Over at the Google blog they reported the following: If you’ve tried to access your Gmail account today, you are probab...

From Steve Yegge, about the original engineers at Amazon.com: They all used Emacs, of course. Hell, Eric Benson was one of the authors of XEmacs. All of the greatest engineers in the world use Emacs. The world-changer types. Not the great gal in the cube next to you. Not Fred, the amazing guy down t...

It begins “Dear Sir/Madam,” and, being the former, I read on. “Objection to proposed Mobile Phone Base Station (Aqua Court/Nature Trail, O2 Cell Site: 040762)” I pause at this point. I have an O2 mobile phone, it has a crappy signal in my house, the new cell site would be up ...

Obama-mania hit Canada’s capital hard today but there was much more at play than photo ops during the President’s five-hour visit. Harper and Obama announced a “clean energy dialogue” focusing on “carbon capture and storage” technology (CCS) – a stash-the-em...