Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Just Print On It

If you download music from the internet, you do get the songs you want, but you don’t end up with a CD. You have to go back at some point and burn a physical CD at some point. Then most people just grab a sharpie pen or other marker and scribble the name of the [...]

Marginalizing the worker

Ever since I did a report on the cotton gin when I was a freshman in high school, I’ve been enamored with the way technology marginalizes the human worker.  After enough improvements to the cotton gin, they didn’t even need slaves anymore.
I’m a nerd.  I know.
Anyway, I recently took a history class that focused on [...]

Eastern Aerial Mapping and Other Knowledge

A few years back I had completed a project that required aerial mapping of Thailand, Hong Kong and most of China – detailed mapping, complete with digital images, data and labeling to ensure that it was accurate. After the project was over it became relatively useless, but I found that keeping it was worthwhile and [...]

College in the Digital Age

I feel at least a little lucky. When I started college, the digital age had just kicked in at full steam. We had finally reached the point where everyone had a computer and people were starting to learn what iPods were and how to use Google to do their homework. I had spend high school [...]

Reverse Cellular Phone Number Tactics

Finding a company that you can trust in terms of finding a reverse cellular phone number can be complicated, as there are literally hundreds of sites out there that offer “information” for a fee. Often, the information these sites offer for a fee is useless and could have been found using any standard free people [...]