My phone is dumb.  Idiotic, really.  It has no apps, can’t connect to the Internet and – horror of horrors! – comes with no camera.  It does make and receive calls, though, and not once have I had a dropped call.

My TV is also dumb.  It needs a digital converter box and has no connection to the Internet or the Apple Store.  I am surprised there’s not a cord hanging out of the remote. (more…)

I watched The Apprentice finale last week. Go ahead, judge me. In case you have dignity and didn’t watch, here’s how it went down: the pretty, articulate girl won.

The last two contestants standing were the said cute articulate girl, Brandy, and a gruff Texan named Clint, complete with his bag full of “y’alls.”

Clint was rough around the edges and was very eager to please. But who could blame him? After all, contestants from this season were out-of-work and “deserving of a fresh start to their careers” (NBC’s words, not mine). (more…)

In the movie Frequency, an interesting take on time travel, the main character John is able to talk to his dad over short-wave radio 30 years apart to save his dad’s life by warning him how he died. From there, the present changes and then all sorts of movie magic takes place, with plots twists and thrills that only Hollywood can come up with. (more…)

A few years ago, housing was hot. White hot. So hot that you had to get a prescription-based deodorant just to go to an open house.

Today? Not so much. (more…)

If you haven’t heard of Kumo or Wolfram|Alpha, you’re not alone. But you will. Kumo is a beta rebranding of MS Live Search, which was a rebranding of MSN search which … MS wants to be competitive in the search market. So it keeps changing its approach, refining it, putting new skins on it and hoping magic will strike. (more…)

Give me a hint
The Web is a seemingly endless source of information on anything and everything. Problems arise when the information is incorrect or incomplete. Suppose, for example, your company has a name like Universal Import & Exports. There are a lot of companies with this name and similar names, including Universal Exports, of James Bond fame.

So if a client looks for your company, what do they find? You? Someone with a similar (or even identical name, in a global context)? And what if they find you when looking for someone else? Should you care? To the last question, yes. Everyone is a potential client. Figure out why they are finding you. Some things you can’t fix, but some things you can.

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