A blog on Life, Love & The Pursuit of Techyness
Earlier today, I received an e-mail (via the bb) from my dad: “Go to New Times News Service by William L Hamilton an article on Technology Dad” One line, straight to the point and no fancy signatures- when i opened the e-mail on my computer, there was so much whitespace on the screen that I [...]
Bethel, Maine: Even if you can’t be here for the annual North American Wife Carrying Championships, Bethel is worth the detour off the well-traveled Maine Coast. Here in the White Mountains and along the Androscoggin River lie some of the state’s most exciting adventures, such as backpacking the new 42-mile Grafton Loop Trail, which has [...]
I found this video on YouTube after doing a random search for “crackberry.” I’m a new user (I purchased the new 8830 world edition over Thanksgiving break and I love it. Due to my newfound addiction, I have started to run into things while walking. This could become a problem. Anyway- back to the video. [...]
iSchool Senior Received Honorable Mention in CRA’s Outstanding Undergraduate Award Competitionhttp://ischool.syr.edu/about/news.aspx?recid=491 Hi, I’m Alana, and that iSchool senior is me. Yesterday, I was walking home from pilates and the trusty (and new) BlackBerry (8830 world edition) was buzzing feverishly. I looked down, expecting a new facebook wall post or perhaps an email from a group [...]
I was planning my journey home to Ohio for Thanksgiving break when my mom called and suggested that I stop somewhere and stay the night (mainly as I am a terrible nighttime driver) Anyway, I went online and started to check out my options- I usually check out sidestep.com first and then go for your [...]
An Internet connection + a computer – free time + a love for shopping = online shopping! Yes, I love to shop online. Not as much as shopping in a physical retail environment, but it’s a quick fix when driving to the mall is not an option. In exploring this increasingly evolving retail “place” (One [...]
We all remember the line from wedding crashers, “You know how they say we only use 10% of our brains? I think we only use 10% of our hearts.” Well I was sitting in class today, and somehow this concept came to mind- mainly it was during a presentation given by a representative from Harris [...]
A few weeks ago, I was in the computer cluster here at Syracuse University and the worst thing happened in the middle of creating a ERD. my ipod died. Upon realizing I was a bit frustrated at this situation, my friend turned to me and said “Alana, have you tried Pandora?” Being the geeky person [...]
Think back to the good ol’ days of web 1.0 applications, AOL 3.0, and that incessant noise of your dial up connection and busy signals. Luckily for all of us who enjoy reliving obsolete technologies that have no current usage except sheer entertainment value, PC World published “The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time.” [...]
Wanderlust, a word I came across while wiki’ing, means “(Middle High German: wandern, to wander, and Lust, desire) is a German loanword. It is commonly defined as a strong desire to travel, or by having an itch to get out and see the world [1]. Some consider it to be a simple linguistic compound of [...]