Tag Archives: technology

SIX OF THE WORST… problems with grounding your nerdy child

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Josh Roseman

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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SIX OF THE BEST… business technology improvements that benefit nerds (and everybody else)

Posted on April 20, 2016 by Josh Roseman

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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SIX OF THE BEST… ways technology depresses us

Posted on September 9, 2015 by Josh Roseman

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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SIX OF THE BEST… ticketing system features

Posted on May 28, 2015 by Josh Roseman

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)

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SIX OF THE BEST… reasons not to buy a smartwatch

Posted on April 22, 2015 by Josh Roseman

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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SIX OF THE WORST… parental technology troubles

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Josh Roseman

What did you have to deal with at your parents’ house over the holidays? Their technology, for starters. SIX OF THE WORST… parental technology troubles – The Nerdery Public

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The Speed of Sci-Fi, Revisited

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Josh Roseman

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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It can’t beam me up. Yet.

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Josh Roseman

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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