Originally published at Quantum Matrix Scribe. Please leave any comments there.

So after giving my political predictions, let’s move on to something eminently more satisfying and cool: that which is in my headline.
Online services will get crappier

Perhaps it is only me, but the past two years have seen many great online services climb up the stupid ( Read more... )

Originally published at Quantum Matrix Scribe. Please leave any comments there.

Just installed Classic Shell & put the start menu back on Win8. Not sure why Macroshaft deleted this feature but it seems a big mistake. Without it, Windows 8 is always slightly irritating; with it, it works wonders.

Originally published at Quantum Matrix Scribe. Please leave any comments there.

You know, we’ve become too fixated on the internet. It’s gotten to a point where, if we have a computer that is unable to connect, said computer is useless.

Want to edit a video using Adobe? Sorry, you need the internet to verify your program.

Want to see if you can ( Read more... )

Originally published at Quantum Matrix Scribe. Please leave any comments there.

There is apparently a new and worrying trend where employers are asking for job candidates’ Facebook account passwords:

When Justin Bassett interviewed for a job, he was stunned when the interviewer asked for something more than his experience and references: his ( Read more... )

Originally published at Quantum Matrix Scribe. Please leave any comments there.

I’ve used OpenOffice for years, because I’ve never seen the point in paying over $100 just to be able to type some words out (and, also, I hate Office 2007 and its craptacular user interface.) Recently, I just switched to a dual-boot installation of Linux, because I was ( Read more... )

Originally published at Quantum Matrix Scribe. Please leave any comments there.

About a week ago, I was at my sister’s house in upstate New York visiting, and she told me about this wonderful thing called X10. It’s a company that develops “home automation systems,” allowing you to control your lighting, doors, appliances, and everything remotely, or ( Read more... )

WordPress.com Blog Bling: Blockquotes and Quotes « Lorelle on WordPress

This is probably the most interesting Wordpress/blogging related article I have read. Ever. I just never thought of it. Hmm.

Originally published at Quantum Matrix Scribe. Please leave any comments there.

I was thinking about writing on Charlie Sheen’s disastrous fall today, sort of trying to look at it from the PR (and just the “common sense”) angle, but frankly, he’s a tired topic already. (There is far too much “#winning” on Twitter for me to handle at the moment.)

( Read more... )

America and the United States Government Aren’t the Same Thing - By Reihan Salam - The Agenda - National Review Online

Brilliant.

Again, yet again, we see decentralization taking over the system, with the power structures in place unable to counter individuals exercising their free will.

People keep ignoring me, saying that my whole "decentralization ( Read more... )

WikiLeaks backlash: The first global cyber war has begun, claim hackers | Media | The ObserverIn a lot of science fiction, there is, in the story's past, many decades or even centuries or millennia before its subjective present, some sort of conflict that destroys the old order, and from its ashes rise a new one. We usually think of post- ( Read more... )