Tag Archive for 'technology'

How Do You Use Your Cognitive Surplus?

What do you do with your free time?   Do you spend it creating, or do you spend it passively consuming?   Typically, we all do a mixture of both (we are human, afterall), but in this TED video from Clay Shirky, he explains how the 1 Trillion hours of free time can impact our society in [...]

A Major Undertaking: Naming Your Wireless Network

I’ve named my car. (Amelia) I’ve named my blackberry. (Lanesberry) Even my alter ego has a name. (Lane Dog) So why wouldn’t you take the same care with naming your wireless network? This topic was brought up while talking to @ethansen on episode 15 of the podcast that we co-host, Millennious. Personally, I don’t like [...]

Rarr… Captcha!

Last week, those movie ticket kiosks were on my nerves. But this week, I wanted to focus on those fun little images we all love to hate: Captcha. You know them- the images you have to decode in order to sign up for a new account (basically to prove that you’re human). This post is [...]