Email Scams
My cousin is not in Spain. She does not have a family with her and they didn’t have a horrid vacation where they were robbed and lost their passports. Yet the email I got this morning clearly stated...
View ArticleThe Future of Printed Books
When the report on the cocktail table books, you know the large picturesque tomes that people like to show off, the reporter made a comment about giving books to children. He suggested they will...
View ArticleAuthor Beta-Tests Microsoft’s New “Avoid the Hood” App
The author was recently invited to test a beta version of Microsoft’s new “Avoid the Hood” GPS application for its smart phone. A user is directed away from “bad” neighborhoods by the app. The original...
View ArticleA HIPPO in a VOLVO!!
I often watch science or history related programming intent on spurring thought and doing some learning. Many times, the information has a slant of one kind or another. It is usually obvious, and I...
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How came my short story collection title – and a review of Mount Can’t
When I arrived at the title of the first short story in my collection Curiosity Killed the Sphinx and Other Stories, I meant for the sphinx to be like that at Delphi, a sphinx with riddles. The first...
View ArticleeFestival of Words Virtual Book Fair
What: eFestival of Words Virtual Book Fair When: August 17th-19th, 2012 Where: www.efestivalofwords.com The eFestival of Words Virtual Book Fair is the first virtual book fair dedicated to connecting...
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Learning new words or old words?
Learning new words or old words? THE HOUSE IN WINDWARD LEAVES is free on Kindle Oct 4 to Oct 8 Drama queen. Decandy. Podsnap. Geophony. Two words are new; two are old. They all seem like words I...
View ArticleSnowden Waaaaaa!
You can hear them all day screaming. “He’s a traitor! He’s the most, vile thing in the history of humankind! OMFG! He gave away secrets! Secrets! How dare he? He’s taken up with Vladimir Putin and he’s...
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SWI “Downsizing”
Yes, I agree this unexpected downsizing was a disaster for many of us. I was using SWI as my blog to promote my manuscripts in progress and my writing in general. I have the pieces I wrote more...
View ArticleHow to access archive of deleted posts
Regarding deleted SWI posts, my daughter informs me that “all is not lost” — there’s a way to access most of them. Being a computer dunce, I would be unable to repeat her explanation if you paid me,...
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WHY IS MY PERSONAL COMPUTER SLOWING DOWN?
BRYCE ON TECHNOLOGY – Some simple tips to speed up your machine. (Click for AUDIO VERSION) To use this segment in a Radio broadcast or Podcast, send TIM a request. This narrative is primarily aimed at...
View ArticleWhen Will I Break One Hundred? Facebook Friends, That Is
In which I complain about the dearth and quality of my Facebook friends and Facebook in general, which will no doubt cause me to lose even more of them. It’s here The post When Will I Break One...
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A SHORT HISTORY OF SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT
BRYCE ON SYSTEMS – Which came first, systems or the computer? NOTE: People today believe information systems began with the advent of the computer. Hardly. Computers are but the latest method of...
View ArticleTop Ten Auto-Responses When You Are Hospitalized
My Significant Other is having surgery this week and needs to put an auto-response on each of her email accounts so people won’t wonder why she isn’t responding to their cyber-nagging while she is...
View ArticleWill Internet Slideshows Bring an End to Western Civilization?
When I’m trying desperately to scrape up material for this column, I turn to the Internet, as I have a computer in front of me at work, just like most other Americans. This particular morning the...
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ACCEPTING MEDIOCRITY IN COMPUTING
BRYCE ON TECHNOLOGY – Just because you use Microsoft products, doesn’t mean you are “state of the art.” (Click for AUDIO VERSION) To use this segment in a Radio broadcast or Podcast, send TIM a...
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WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO UNIVAC?
BRYCE ON HISTORY – Why it is necessary to learn industrial history. (Click for AUDIO VERSION) To use this segment in a Radio broadcast or Podcast, send TIM a request. Through my columns I occasionally...
View ArticleKids, eReaders, and Book Browsing
The Kindle Fire HD Kids Edition tablet was launched this fall. With it, kids can navigate to eBooks by topic and interest. I think this is a great thing, to have digital shelves just for children...
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Don’t Hack After Me, North Korea
Police sketch of suspected Sony hacker. This column had not been following news of the Sony hack too intensely, until the theory that it was perpetrated by the North Korean government in revenge for...
View ArticleThe Technological Advancement of Depravity
“What now, do we find the Primal Curse to have been? Plainly what it was in the beginning: the infliction upon man of the Moral Sense; the ability to distinguish good from evil; and with it,...
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