Category: tech

Upon accepting this MSFT contract position, I had to sign a ton of paperwork preventing me from disclosing too much to certain parties, from certain types of requests/contact with full-time employees, and barring me from working with any other contracting agency for Microsoft for a long time. There were tons of other clauses I don’t… Continue reading The Truth Comes Out

I played with my first iPhone this weekend. Turns out I do want one. Despite everything negative. I want one. Now. So does Grant. We are smitten. We are no longer interested in each other. We are only interested in this device. But considering how cheap I am about paying for things like contract-termination fees,… Continue reading I take it all back.

After reading Pogue and Mossberg and others mouthing off about the iPhone, I’m intrigued, but not actually interested in buying one yet. For two incredibly simple reasons: 1) You can’t copy and paste text. 2) The “period” key is on a different keyboard from the letters, so in order to punctuate your sentences, you have… Continue reading Why I won’t be getting an iPhone

Yeah, not much of a blogger these days. The thing is, I now have actual *work* to do, which I find immensely satisfying and interesting. Plus, the couple times I’ve tried to upload something quick from work, there’s some weird thing in the Microsoft network that makes my entire post come up completely blank. At… Continue reading RIP Weblog?

Yeah, so it’s not exactly news that I’m a bit behind the times when it comes to the new hotness in technology. I didn’t get a cell phone in the US until I was about a year out of college, even though they were standard issue by the time I was a senior. I held… Continue reading What is this “Pod Cast” you speak of?

This morning I came in to work late because I had been at the dentist earlier, so I was already a bit stressed about missing extra hours during this potential crunch time for us. Thus, to maximize efficiency and minimize unpleasantness, I wasted no time in getting to my computer to turn it on so… Continue reading Victory is Mine

So this is uncharacteristically after the fact of me, but here is an article from the P-I a couple weeks ago about my cell phone woes and the resultant happy aftermath. Long story short, I was having massive troubles with my crappy phone and crappy T-Mobile service – it had been good for ages and… Continue reading Verizon-Tastic

I just watched my roommate hold her leftover corn cob (mostly removed of corn via her human teeth) so her dog could nibble the remnants off, exactly like people eat corn (except for the whole someone-else-having-to-hold-it-for-her part). A random anecdote, perhaps, but it made me want to get with the digital age. Lately, lots of… Continue reading Time to get with the times