August 2010

Disable Facebook Places

August 20, 2010 8 comments

Yesterday Facebook began rolling out it’s new “Facebook Places” feature. Places is basically a location based feature that uses Geo-tagging technology to update your status postings with physical locations. While location tagging isn’t new technology it does poses potential risks. As with all things, there are folks out there who would exploit the information for [...]

Netflix looking to add hundreds of top shelf movies

August 18, 2010 3 comments

I love Netflix. It was great back when I could get 3 movie at a time delivered in the mail, watch them, then drop them back in the mailbox only to have 3 more show up just a few days later. That was a few years ago. Fast forward to the present. I can’t say [...]

RNC Lays On The Cheese With JetBlue Based Campaign Ad

August 18, 2010 0 comments

Have you seen this ad put out by the RNC that plays off the JetBlue employee who blew a gasket recently? Whether you’re a Republican or Democrat you gotta like the ad. On the red side, you gotta love it for the overly simplistic message it sends about the current political strife between Obama and [...]

Ground Zero Mosque: It’s About RESPECT Damnit! Not Rights or Freedoms!

August 16, 2010 4 comments

OMG! What the hell is wrong with people? Do they not understand that the issue with the Islamic Mosque being built near Ground Zero has absolutely nothing to do with Freedom’s or Rights? I jumped on “The Anointed One” the other day saying he thumbed his nose at the 9/11 victims and survivors. In hindsight [...]

AT&T iPhone Customers Want A Verizon iPhone

August 16, 2010 3 comments

Thumbing through some news articles this morning I ran across this one from PCWorld (“Verizon Customers Eager for iPhone“). It caught my attention because I’m one of the gazillion AT&T iPhone users that can’t stand the service and would love to be able to move to the Verizon network. Why? Simple. Where I live AT&T’s [...]

Obama thumbs nose at victims of 9/11

August 14, 2010 0 comments

photo credit: Bas van Gaalen I’ve never been one to really go all out on political commentary and I’m certainly no political analyst, but I swear, with every passing day the more depressed I become about what’s going on with the country and around the world. Yesterday, The Annointed One finally weighed in on the [...]