My Best Buy Geek Squad Fiasco – With a Happy Ending
Before I did hardware tech support for a few years in the early 2000’s, I used to tell people to skip warranties on most items (up to a certain amount of value) because they were just a big [...]
AI Voice Assistant Technology Still Sucks
“OK Dragon – post ‘I’m too lazy to write this status myself’ to Facebook.” No problem. OK to post “I’m too lazy to write this status myself”? [...]
Work For Yourself: The Entrepreneur’s Checklist
In March, I left my fairly awesome job working from home as a project manager to pursue entrepreneurship full time. My wife and I were almost done with our Web Technologies program at the local [...]
GoGo In-Flight Wifi For BlackBerry Hack on Delta Airlines (User Agent Hack)
Currently (Until June 30th), Blackberry is sponsoring free in-flight wifi via GoGo on all Delta flights. I found this out when I was boarding my plane last Wednesday after having not flown for a [...]
FIX: Get Skype to Work on 64-Bit Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail
Problem: I needed to install Skype on a Linux Live USB distro with persistence (so it remembers the settings & saves files) so I could video chat with my fiancée while on a business trip. On [...]
Why Your Small Business Sucks at Social Media
Stanley’s Chargrill diner, centrally located downtown beside the Wal-mart across from the courthouse, makes one of the most fantastic burgers on the planet. Their fries are crispy, their [...]
The Last 4 Months With a Pebble Smartwatch
Let’s rewind all the way back in time to April 11th, 2012. I was online on my desktop computer while I was at my day job, and my friend Jay sent me a link to this Kickstarter page about a [...]
