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...
It seems like since the advent of the internet — from simple HTML pages, to Geocities, to modern blogs — there is always someone or some website reviewing a product (may that be user rated reviews) and giving the produ...
After long last Apple’s new iPad Mini is here. I’m sure many questions are going through people’s minds in regards to how the iPad Mini will do against the competition (namely Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire HD), how (if...
How many dotTechies have or plan on rock climbing? I have once or twice and I must tell you it is harder than it looks or sounds. And, interestingly enough, it is the nimble that seem to do better at it than others (aka I have a c...
It is election year in the United States, with the vote for the office of the President of the United States to be held in roughly one month. The fight between incumbent President Barack Obama and challenger Governor Mitt Romney i...
Have you ever had an issue, maybe a computer error or some other problem, that you decided to solve by Googling, and when you did Google it the only answer — or answers — you find is incomplete? Not only incomplete, bu...
I am a guy. As such, I do not cook. Yes, yes, I know — cooking is not only for women. Still. I am a guy. I do not cook. (Although that will change if my wife has her way. Must… resist… feminine… charms̷...
Different companies have different corporate cultures, different visions, different goals, and make money in different ways. The mix of the just-mentioned elements often determine what a customer — in other words, me and you...
Over the past few years the Pirate Bay has been in the news thanks to attempts by law enforcement authorities to bring it down. Most recently, a founder of the Pirate Bay — Gottfrid Svartholm Warg — was extradited from...