I'm having trouble recalling an episode of a TV show, perhaps Simpsons or Futurama, where the main joke of a scene was that advertisers realized what valuable real estate the tongue was and they started putting ads on people's tongues. If I had been able to remember that show (or you tell me in the comments) and embed a clip (assuming it actually exists), it would have been the … [Read more...]
Archives for 2010
Book Review: CompTIA Strata Green IT
CompTIA just recently announced their CompTIA Strata Green IT certification and as this has been what my job involves lately, I decided to jump on in and see if I could get the certification as soon as possible. The exam certifies that you as an IT Professional have... A specialized knowledge of current IT methodologies The ability to develop, deploy, and calculate true ROI … [Read more...]
PowerPoint Print Out Cuts Off Notes and Blanks Slides
I had an interesting case come across my desk earlier this week involving PowerPoint. It seemed this person wanted to print out the slides along with the notes that they had made. Actually, it gets a little more complicated than that. High-ranking administrator had originally created the PowerPoint and put notes along with each of the slides. After that, the slides were handed … [Read more...]
Diaspora – Your Digital Identity Under Your Control, The End of Facebook?
I'm not on Facebook. You won't find me there. I once was but I left after seeing many people waste too many hours on it and Facebook first changed its privacy policies (or lack thereof). Read these two articles from the Business Insider and tell me if you trust your information with Facebook's CEO - #1 How Facebook Was Founded #2 How Mark Zuckerberg Hacked The Harvard Crimson … [Read more...]
Using Twitter’s New Blackbird Pie Service
Twitter is providing a service that replaces the need to take screenshots of tweets in order to cite a source. It calls this service Blackbird Pie and offer it through Twitter Media. From the site that's made famous the term 'fail whale', will Blackbird Pie be reliable enough for journalists and bloggers to switch to a styled embed method from simple screenshots? Using … [Read more...]