Tag Archives: technology
SIX OF THE WORST… problems with grounding your nerdy child
My kid got in trouble this week and got seriously grounded for the first time. But as my wife and I learned, it’s not easy when your child is nerdy.
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Tagged engagement, french doors, grounded, monotony, parenting, punishment, reading, solitary confinement, strict, technology, writing lines
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SIX OF THE BEST… business technology improvements that benefit nerds (and everybody else)
If you fix your business technology to make your nerds happy, everyone else will be happy too. Here are Six of the Best… business technology improvements that benefit nerds (and everyone else), my latest column at Nerdery Public.
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Tagged batfleck, batman, ben affleck, business, google business, internet explorer, microsoft office, patience, power users, security, tech support, technology, vpn, walled garden, work, work phone
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SIX OF THE BEST… ways technology depresses us
Lately I’ve been having some real struggles with my depression, and I think a lot of them are related to how much technology I use. In that vein, here are six of the best ways technology depresses us. SIX OF … Continue reading
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Tagged casual gaming, computers, depression, digital records, distraction, double depression, dysthymia, gamification, jones in the fastlane, keeping up with jones, neurotypical, passive interaction, sleep, technology
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SIX OF THE BEST… ticketing system features
Our new ticketing system at work is so bad that I wrote a column about it. (SIX OF THE BEST… ticketing system features – The Nerdery Public)
SIX OF THE BEST… reasons not to buy a smartwatch
Unless you’ve been living completely off the grid — in which case, how are you reading this? — you’re aware that Apple is releasing a highly-touted wearable called the iWatch. It’s coming this Friday, and you absolutely, positively don’t need … Continue reading
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Tagged apple watch, battery life, casio, databank, iwatch, smartwatch, status symbol, technology, watch, watches, wearables
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The Speed of Sci-Fi, Revisited
About a year and a half ago, I wrote a post about how fast data storage technology is expanding. My example was my USB drive, which holds eight hundred times as much data in something the size of my finger … Continue reading
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Tagged android, blackberry, cellphone, iphone, sci-fi, technology
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It can’t beam me up. Yet.
My comparison of Star Trek communicators to the HTC Evo has been posted on Escape Pod. Enjoy. It can’t beam me up. Yet.
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Tagged cellphone, communicator, evo, htc, star trek, technology
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Josh Roseman: Writer, Voice Guy, Dad, Human 