Apologies to any attendees of my presentation for Logeion who expected to find the slides on this site. You might have had trouble, because while I did add them to the site, I was flaky enough *not* to add them to the Presentations page. Somehow I doubt anyone lost sleep over it, but you can […]
Never talk to telemarketers again
Well, from home, at least. This has nothing to do with the web, but I thought it might be helpful to share. After being plagued with calls from telemarketers between about 6pm and 10pm (the nerve!), my partner and I decided to change our voicemail message. We’ve seen the amount of calls drop dramatically. And […]
Is social networking the new stamp collecting?
I’ve been curious lately about the apparent social stamp collections of some Twitter users, after being added by these people as their *friend*. When they first added me, I thought they might have somehow been following my work and wanted to keep tabs on what I’m doing. But one guy had about 20,000 friends. Others […]