I couldn’t resist. Check out this article about “death by PowerPoint” in NYT. It reminds of all my all hours-long turned to day-long struggles with PowerPoint in grad school. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/world/27powerpoint.html It is baffling to see how many of our top military and political leaders spend creating or watching PowerPoint presentations. And I thought my stint [...]

I deactivated and deleted my Facebook account over 2 years ago. Many reasons contributed to the decision, but the main reason is that Facebook sucks your face-to-face, real, truly social, not-in-front-of-a-computer life down the cyberspace drain. Apparently others are starting to notice what a waste of life Facebook can be. NYT has an article that [...]

I’ve always known how cool vinyls are, and I’ve always been jealous of those folks with sick vinyl collections and a working turntable. As a little girl, my favorite was the old-school 1950s Bing Crosby Merry Christmas vinyl album. Very, very gently my brother and I would put Bing Crosby on the turntable night after [...]

Whenever I read something about Apple that is negative, or in my opinion it’s negative, I become overwhelmed with my disappointment with Apple. I think it’s pretty obvious that I’m an Apple supporter & although I am fluent on a Mac and on a PC, I’d take a Mac any day of the week over [...]

Check out this new Apple store in New York, it looks totally sick: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/apples-modest-addition-to-the-upper-west-side/