How many dotTechies are married? My guess is a good majority of us are. I am and, as I have made so ever abundantly clear, I have the best, most beautiful wife in the world. (Sorry guys, the truth hurts.) And I’m not just sa...
As I have said time and time again, I don’t social network. No Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc. for me aside from profiles for dotTech. (I do LinkedIn but that is for professional purposes and not really a social network in ...
We have already seen a scientifically-backed hypothesis that technology has made us more stupid. Maybe one of the reasons why we are more stupid is because technology gets between us and our daily dose of sleep. I mean, how many p...
Pirating, Illegal downloading, Pirating, Illegal downloading. Are they one in the same? Most people would say “yes, they are”. Personally, I would agree. However, as the following comic humorously points out, if you wa...
I do not know about others, but when it comes to technology, I am prone to getting distracted easily. Indeed, I often find myself using my smartphone to do a specific task then end up roaming the internet for something completely ...
The general idea behind human growth, as a species, is that we build upon knowledge of the people that came before us to become smarter with every passing generation. And, to some degree, this is true; we have, and we do, indeed u...
How many dotTechies have, in the past, attempted to start a blog (emphasis on “attempted”)? How many dotTechies plan on starting a blog something in the near or distant future? If you are of the former group, then you ...
There are some phrases in the English language that you hear over and over. “Caught between a rock and a hard place” is one such phrase; it is so overused by now, it has become cliche yet people continue to say it̷...
Ever since I was young, I have been a habitual belt user for almost all the pants I own. Why? Well it started out due to my scrawny size but now I just think it is cool (for better or for worse). Due to by excess use of belts, I h...
Ever try to have a thoughtful discussion with someone (or some group) on the Internet, may that be in a forum, on a blog, in a chat room, or elsewhere? If you have tried, then you probably know meaningful discussions on the Intern...
Remember the days of the hardback encyclopedias? The ones that salespeople would go door to door to try to sell? Yeah, well, aside from colleges, universities, and libraries, no one really has those anymore. We all use Wikipedia n...
There are two common ways people react when a program freezes. The first is smacking something, typically the computer or the desk. The second is madly clicking the mouse. How many people are of the latter group? I admit, I am bec...
How many dotTechies use Internet Explorer? If you are an Internet Explorer user, then you probably want to click away because you may not appreciate the humor. If you are not an Internet Explorer user, however, then you will proba...
Back when Facebook just started, it was not really considered to be a competitor to Google. After all, Facebook was (is) a social network while Google was (is) primarily a search engine. Now, however, Google and Facebook are rival...
How many dotTechies are Facebook users? Aside from an account to maintain dotTech’s Facebook fanpage, I am proud to say I am no longer a Facebook user. Keyword to note is “no longer”; I actually was one of the fi...