Category Archives: Internet/Technology

Analyzing My Facebook Friends

Because I am weird (and because I only have 35 Facebook friends, making it possible to turn my weirdness into some data observations), I have spent the last 10 minutes analyzing how many friends my friends have. On average, they have 162.8857 friends (the person who is .8857th of a friend keeps showing up as …

February 15, 2010 – 11:16 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Internet/Technology | Tagged , | Comments (2)

Why I Quit Twitter

I joined Twitter in August of this year without a great deal of thought and after long decrying the effect I was sure it had on attention. I did it mostly because there are usually 5-10 times a day when I have a thought or see a link that don’t warrant a full blog post …

November 14, 2009 – 5:43 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Internet/Technology | Comments (1)

Hope And Change In High Tech Land

I wonder how all those high tech workers feel after having supported Obama so strongly during the election only to find out that he wants to do things like regulate venture capital firms with over $30 million in managed money. This covers most of the VC firms out there and means that they would have …

June 18, 2009 – 7:20 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Internet/Technology, Politics | Tagged | Comments (2)

Speaking Of Open Source

PostgreSQL is looking for a web designer to give their site a new look. From the mailing list: To help find a great designer, we’ve decided to put $2000 on the table. The first stage of the project is a design mock-up. A panel of PostgreSQL community members will act as judges for a $1000 …

May 4, 2009 – 1:17 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Internet/Technology, Programming | Tagged | Comments (0)

Hungarian Government Socializes Open Source

There’s some chatter in the internets this morning about Hungary “boosting” open source use by requiring all their civil servants to spend equal amounts of money on open source software and proprietary software. According to the linked article this “will be the first time that open source will gain equal status with proprietary vendors in …

May 4, 2009 – 8:16 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Internet/Technology | Tagged | Comments (0)

Remembering What You Did Last Night

Text messages from last night is my new favorite use of technology. Current fave TM: (323): just ate pastrami before passing out in my hotel room. My room smells like a petting zoo.

April 28, 2009 – 8:42 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Humor, Internet/Technology | Comments (1)

Getting It All Wrong

Because the internet is such a big place, occasionally you will read something that is so profoundly wrong that at first you are sure it’s parody and only later, does it come clear that the author is in fact earnestly trying to argue for something based on a fundamental misunderstanding of how the world works …

April 13, 2009 – 7:13 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Internet/Technology | Comments (0)

Markets In Everything

Domestic Discipline Software Yes it is what you think it is and yes it is SFW. The Internet is crazy.

December 5, 2008 – 6:40 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Internet/Technology | Comments (0)

My New Favorite Web Browsing Tool

If you are a Firefox user, I highly suggest installing Ubiquity. It’s a current experimental plugin for Firefox but it’s beginning to change how I surf the web, send things to people and in general, how I interact with the browser. Ubiquity is an attempt to use natural language to interact with the browser. You …

October 10, 2008 – 9:43 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Internet/Technology | Tagged , | Comments (0)

That’s A Bunch Of Errors

Apparently, Microsoft is getting better in predicting what’s going to happen when they upgrade their software (click on the picture to the left and read the yellow box). They’ve gotten so good that they can say users may experience 500 errors. Not some errors or a plethora of errors but 500 errors. Remind me not …

August 22, 2008 – 9:07 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Humor, Internet/Technology | Tagged , | Comments (0)