I remember reading a news report, yes news report on a major news channel (*cough* CNN *cough* — yes I do watch TV… sometimes…), that the first thing a couple did after getting married is post a status update to ...
Have you ever started talking to someone and they seemingly responded in kind… but then you later discover that they are on the phone and were talking to the person on the other end, not you? Yeah… haven’t we all...
All companies (minus the patent trolls) offer some sort of product or service. Often times these companies have slogan which attempt to reflect their value or what they stand for. If Google, Apple, Twitter, and Wikipedia were to t...
I was born only with a silver spoon in my mouth so I had always gone to pubic school. I’m sure some of you one percenters went to private institutions. Any dotTechie been homeschooled? If yes, I sure as heck hope you did not...
According to Wikipedia “douchebag” could refer to “device used to administer a douche”. However, when a person calls someone (or something, in the case of companies) a douchebag, s/he typically isn’t ...
Okay, be honest: how many of you pirate stuff (aka take part in file sharing aka peer-to-peer activity aka torrenting aka call it whatever the hell you want), whatever that stuff maybe? On second thought, don’t be honest ...
When you open a new cell phone line in the United States, you (typically) get a cell phone number that has an area code of the area in which you currently live. Way back when before national roaming become the norm, people would o...
As I’m sure most, if not all, of dotTechies have heard by now that Disney has bought LucasArts and plans on releasing more Star Wars movies (if you haven’t heard about this already, you seriously need to come to dotTec...
Try to remember back when you were a kid in, say, elementary school. (That is grade school for you chaps who follow the British system… I think.) What were the things that amazed you, the things you couldn’t figure out...
Credit cards are doubled edged swords, so to speak. They are great because they not only allow you to carry less cash on hand and still purchase things, and actually don’t even require you to have the cash to pay for what yo...
As Wikipedia describes it, a troll “is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages” online “with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting...
What do you do when you write an email? More likely than not, you write the email, proofread the email, then send it. Or at least that is what we like to tell others. In reality, I’m sure many of us do something along the li...
It doesn’t matter how old or young a person is — everyone has probably had someone older, such as a grandfather or grandmother, tell them about “the good old days” where people worked much harder, had bette...
I’ve been reviewing programs on dotTech, previously known as Politically Motivated (dotnet) for those of you that have been around for that long, for over four years now (dotTech’s fourth birthday just passed last Mond...
I’m not sure if anyone has heard the news yet but, just like how people line up at Apple stores in anticipation of a new iPhone or iPad, there are people who are lining up at Microsoft stores in anticipation for Windows 8. O...