Don’t Be Evil
Posted August 5th, 2013 @ 02:47pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Posted August 5th, 2013 @ 02:47pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Posted August 4th, 2013 @ 02:44pm by Erik J. Barzeski
I call fakesies.
Posted August 3rd, 2013 @ 02:30pm by Erik J. Barzeski
I like Southwest - a lot, actually. They are friendly, funny, and don't charge for baggage. I don't like the way they board planes, but it has its advantages, too.
This, however, is a sad tale: a Southwest plane crash landed, and then things were stolen from the passenger luggage before being returned. Shame on the Southwest employees (very little shame on Southwest - I don't think they could have trained everyone there to handle that kind of situation very well).
Posted August 2nd, 2013 @ 01:15pm by Erik J. Barzeski
When you're old, things seem to rush by. Why?
Possible answer: because we stop learning.
It’s simple: if you want time to slow down, become a student again. Learn something that requires sustained effort; do something novel.
Posted August 1st, 2013 @ 01:12pm by Erik J. Barzeski
ICR, together with the rest of the creation science movement, has made great strides in the last 40 years. In many areas, the superiority of the creation worldview has been clearly demonstrated. Even now, ICR is making exciting discoveries in the fields of biology and geology, and we have started new research initiatives in the field of astronomy. However, there is much work that still needs to be done, and this work is hindered by a lack of trained scientists.
Posted July 31st, 2013 @ 01:11pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Posted July 30th, 2013 @ 01:07pm by Erik J. Barzeski
This article on Kait Weston parlaying her YouTube success into a career reminds me of what my friend Dave always says about American Idol: it's genius, because the buying public is literally voting on what they'll buy. It's irrelevant what the judges think - they're for show - the voting public is constantly refining their choice, week after week, guaranteeing at least some level of success to the recording company.
Posted July 29th, 2013 @ 01:04pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Steve Jobs did it.
Einstein supposedly did it.
Even Charlie Brown did it.
So did this woman, for a year, and she wrote about it.
Posted July 28th, 2013 @ 12:59pm by Erik J. Barzeski
I still have an eMate 300, and this article explores connecting one to Mac OS X.
I miss the handwriting recognition. It was quite good, Simpsons jokes aside… Or, let me put it this way: it was less frustrating than Siri speech recognition and network availability.
Posted July 27th, 2013 @ 12:57pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Posted July 26th, 2013 @ 12:57pm by Erik J. Barzeski
How stupid are some companies? Seriously?
The tweets look completely real, but SFGate discovered that while the Twitter users who are featured are real, their tweets are not. The users featured raving about TV commercials never said anything of the kind, and were unaware their profile pics and accounts were being presented in a post on Twitter’s blog sent out to hundreds of thousands via the @Twitterads Twitter account and retweeted to more than 1.5 million.
Posted July 25th, 2013 @ 12:53pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Posted July 24th, 2013 @ 12:52pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Posted July 23rd, 2013 @ 12:51pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Proving that MLB still has a long way to go…
:facepalm:
Posted July 22nd, 2013 @ 12:46pm by Erik J. Barzeski
But then a funny thing happened. Last week, Verizon reported its earnings results from Q2 2013 and the results were better than what most analysts were expecting. Last quarter, Verizon activated 7.5 million smartphones, of which 3.8 million units were iPhones. Put differently, nearly 51% of all smartphones Verizon activated last quarter were iPhones.