Google Big Brother?
May 13th, 2013 // 6:14 pm @ Erik Westermann
A lot of people comment that Google collects a lot of data about its users. Location. Search history. Contents of email (via GMail), social interactions, etc. People say all of this data erodes their privacy since Google will be able to correlate all of your data and figure out a lot about you – often [...]
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Novella Glue on Twitter
May 10th, 2013 // 2:40 am @ Erik Westermann
Steven Soderbergh, an American film producer, screenwriter, and director, known for Erin Brockovich, Traffic, and Oceans Eleven, is reportedly tweeting a pulp fiction novella. The novel, so far, is about something called #&%# – which is something “everyone wanted but nobody had it” – featuring characters like D, M, and S. The novella has been [...]
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10 things Americans might now know about America
May 10th, 2013 // 12:46 am @ Erik Westermann
A nice post over at Thought Catalog lists some interesting facts Americans might not know about their own country. The writer, an American, says he has gained perspective as a result of living outside of the USA for a number of years. Here’s the money quote… You often don’t see what’s messed up about your [...]
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Open Here
May 7th, 2013 // 3:35 am @ Erik Westermann
Have you bought something packaged in that thin film plastic and been unable to open it? You need a key, a knife, or something else to open the package. It gets worse with the hard, clear plastic. You need special tools – like a jackhammer – to open some packages! It’s an incredibly simple and [...]
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I Don’t Like
May 6th, 2013 // 2:59 am @ Erik Westermann
It’s ubiquitous – the Like button. Visit almost any website and you’ll find it. Sometimes the Like button is politely placed at the bottom of an article, sometimes at the top. Other times the Like button floats beside whatever I’m reading – I scroll, it scrolls with me. I don’t want to click the Like [...]
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Dear Home Depot, I am not a criminal
May 5th, 2013 // 2:19 am @ Erik Westermann
I am writing to tell you I am not a criminal when I use your self-checkout system. It’s evident that you’re not clear about this simple fact. The lines at the checkout counters are very long. Longer at the cashier-staffed checkouts. The lines at the self-checkout counters are deceivingly shorter and seem faster for some [...]
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Fake Twitter Followers? Who cares!
April 11th, 2013 // 6:22 pm @ Erik Westermann
There’s been some recent publicity about Twitter users that buy fake Twitter followers to boost the number of people that follow their account. According to an IT World article – Fake Twitter followers: One more thing Justin Bieber and Bill Gates have in common – Bill Gates and Justin Beiber have fake Twitter followers. IT [...]
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Less power to you!
April 9th, 2013 // 11:39 pm @ Erik Westermann
I have been experimenting with doing some voice over work for some of my non-technical clients. If you’re surprised that I have non-technical clients I’ll tell you more about that in another posting. A voice over is the voice of the narrator you hear in commercials, videos, and other media. Voice overs are done by [...]
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Margret Thatcher dead at 87
April 8th, 2013 // 2:54 pm @ Erik Westermann
Margret Thatcher, the Iron Lady, died today, aged 87… Former British PM Margret Thatcher dies at 87 We are all bound by events we don’t influence nor play a role in yet many follow them and are influenced by them as of they were somehow personally involved. I feel this way about Thatcher. She was [...]
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