Category Archives: Internet/Technology

Thoughts on the Internet

Lofty titles aside (really, I some­times just make up titles to posts because I feel like my site design looks ter­ri­ble with­out one. I digress), I do have a not that impres­sive thought on what surf­ing of the Inter­net does to our brain. I’m cur­rently read­ing The Best And The Bright­est and while I don’t …

December 28, 2007 – 6:29 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Internet/Technology | Comments (2)

Home Security

What I really want to see in those Brinks com­mer­cials: Pro­tected by Brinks, Bitch! Don’t have Brinks secu­rity? Try this mode of home secu­rity. That’s my witty insight for the day.

December 13, 2007 – 10:25 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Humor, Internet/Technology | Comments (0)

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For my geek readers…

November 28, 2007 – 8:26 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Humor, Internet/Technology | Comments (0)

Remote Control Mail

From the “I can’t believe this is a busi­ness but I wish I would have thought of it” depart­ment, we have Earth Class Mail. For a monthly charge, you get a PO Box that Earth Class Mail mon­i­tors. They scan in every­thing that you get which you can then view. You can choose to have …

November 9, 2007 – 10:27 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Internet/Technology | Comments (0)

Attachments

I’m a firm believer in the fact that com­ments on web sites typ­i­cally drag the con­ver­sa­tion down to the low­est com­mon denom­i­na­tor but occa­sion­ally, you find a com­ment that is insightful.  I found one of those on red­dit the other day and I thought it was worth mentioning:  “Peo­ple who carry cell­phones remind me of …

September 28, 2007 – 6:51 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Internet/Technology | Comments (0)

Chances Are It’s You That’s Stupid

In my expe­ri­ence in the soft­ware devel­op­ment world, peo­ple tend to have one of the fol­low­ing three reac­tions to a new tech­nol­ogy or process: This is so stu­pid. I can’t do this, please do it for me. I don’t under­stand, can you help? You can learn a great deal about a team mem­ber or employee just based …

July 26, 2007 – 11:14 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Internet/Technology, Work | Comments (0)

Why Less is More

The more I work in IT, the more I real­ize how insight­ful the Pareto prin­ci­ple really is.  While it doesn’t apply directly to IT, it cer­tainly rears its ugly head here a lot.  For exam­ple, to this day, years after a cer­tain devel­oper left who shall remain name­less to pro­tect the guilty, we have code …

July 25, 2007 – 7:05 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Internet/Technology, Work | Comments (0)

God’s Prayer Response Technology

I’ve always won­dered how God decided to answer prayers and what prayers had prece­dence over others.  I think I’ve finally fig­ured it out.  God uses Microsoft Mes­sage Queu­ing for his prayer aggre­ga­tion and his queue server went down last year, at least the queue server that took in prayers for rain in the DFW area.  …

July 2, 2007 – 9:10 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Humor, Internet/Technology | Comments (0)

Getting Noticed Means Getting Hired

That’s the gist of this post and it cer­tainly is true in the techie uni­verse I live in. One of the fastest ways to get noticed is to have a decent resume. I read my fair share of resumes as a tech lead at work and let me tell you, most of them suck balls. …

June 27, 2007 – 3:09 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Internet/Technology | Comments (0)

Microsoft Rules (or Does It?)

Go here and watch The Power.  Then go here and be amused. UPDATE: This is an old post. I’m clean­ing up some things on the blog and remov­ing some cat­e­gories which means posts like this get updated. That’s why it might show up in your news­reader this morning.

June 21, 2007 – 7:35 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Internet/Technology | Comments (2)