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I was a huge fan/proponent/consumer of Google Reader. RSS feeds didn’t excite me much prior to the advent of that fine service. If I had to keep track of what I’d read and what I hadn’t to be able to read on multiple devices, I might as well just visit web sites. Google changed all that once I could access the Google Reader website from any computer, phone, tablet, etc. in...
I’m not one who is dragged kicking and screaming into the future. Quite the opposite, I suppose, I embrace new technologies. I’ll wait for other folks to sort them out, quite often, and find their usefulness, but I thrive on new things. I was hesitant to move into the realm of “smart” phones, even as much as I used my Palm Pilot™ back in the day. Somewhere along the line a...
Sport hunting taken to new, um, heights, I suppose… This seems like a great idea, to me, and I hope the FAA will consider rules that make drone deliveries practical or at least legal. What a world it will be with thousands of tiny quad-copters zipping to and fro delivering packages. Some of the photographic systems already available on these copters are fantastic and only stand to improve as gimbals become...
I’ve been using Sparrow as my mail client for over a year since OS X has become my primary operating system. It has served me well, but certainly suffers from a lack of attention since Google bought it and shelved further development. I had forgotten how nice having a real “app” for e-mail was, since I had given up on Outlook and its brethren years back…
It had to happen eventually. One too many times playing juggle the updates to fix some new security vulnerability in Drupal (rhymes with Roople) pushed me over the edge. WordPress has looked like a good idea for a long time, but I’ve just lacked motivation to do a revamp. Then, however, I got a push in the right direction when Facebook became equally frustrating, and I lost my arena for venting...
The beginning of the end between me and Facebook may have started on the day that I couldn’t get the app to install on my iPhone – followed by the app on the iPad dying in similar fashion. However, today it is going to new heights to permanently lose my interest. Despite having deactivated my account, I noticed Facebook notifications popping up on my screen today. Wonder how that could happen?...
Ron Brix’s longtime job as a computer systems developer for Wrigley, the gum and candy maker, required intense attention to detail, single-minded focus and a willingness to work on something repetitively until perfect. The secret he credits to his success? Autism. Read the full article I’ve known several high functioning autistics. All were amazingly capable and showed amazing abilities when presented with the right opportunities. It’s great to see businesses looking...
Like me, do you only have a really old USB DVD drive to install Windows Server on your servers? Would you rather have a faster way to install Windows 7 on your desktops? Here you go! Create an NTFS formatted Primary partition on your drive at least 4GB in size and assign it a drive letter Mark the partition active Next insert your Windows7/Vista DVD into the optical drive and check the drive letter...
I’ll admit it. I was a texting holdout — but only because the people I interacted with were Instant Messaging junkies. My half dozen or so confidants can or could be found on Google Talk or equivalent most of the day. We shoot back and forth with jokes, snide remarks, photos, banter, cool websites, news and what have you. So, I knew the benefits of text… But why on earth would...
Wickett.org 1.0: the early years Wickett.org came to life in 1997. Changes in ISP’s resulted in our e-mail addresses changing 6 times in 7 months. It was time for stability. And since we had a domain name, we might as well put up a website. The first incarnation was static HTML living on a FrontPage enabled server. Groovy! So groovy, in fact, that it still lives. Wickett.org 2.0: the pMachine years...
Canis Wickettis
c. 1992-2011
You will be missed.