A blog on Life, Love & The Pursuit of Techyness
There are a few things I won’t stand for in my digital life. 1) Letting family members continue to use certain e-mail services (AOL, mostly.) 2) Excessive use of CAPS LOCK (aka shouting – this must be explained to parents) 3) Misuse of Electronics Equipment (i.e. my sister’s run in with her PowerBook that left [...]
I was working on a blog for business the other day, and a co-worker asked, “Alana, who is the webmaster?” He couldn’t see (or hear me) but I immediately started to crack up. Webmaster is one term that I haven’t heard in a long time- and a term that I have never used to refer to myself [...]
For July, I decided to put together a few of my top “crushes” out there on the ‘net. 1. Pete Cashmore. Mashable CEO Maybe it’s the accent. Maybe it’s the fact that he started mashable.com (of which I am a fan). For a fun video tribute to Pete, check of ValleyWag’s video where some photos [...]
With the go-live of the facebook vanity urls when the clock struck midnight (no, I did not turn back into a pumpkin..) the rush to claim one’s digital real estate by the 200,000 people in 3 minutes truly makes even the most skeptical person believe that social media is making more than just a digital [...]
For all of you passive-aggressives out there… it does happen that sometimes people ask you something (at work, at home, on campus) that could be answered with a simple Google query. One way to easily solve this issue is by using Let Me Google That For You (LMGTFY.com), a site whos about page says ” [...]
Think back to this morning. What have you entered into that simplified one-line text box on Google’s homepage in the past few hours? Today I’ve googled: Mobile Maximo Solutions IMLP Blog (to check how far up it arrives in results) Millennials Photos (don’t ask- for a side project at work) Syracuse University Homecoming Court (to [...]