Apr 272012
 

Amy was looking for furniture online and came across this “patio hanging egg chair”. $446 seems like an outrageously high price for such an ugly chair… but how can you pass up the opportunity to save over $79,000?! Even more ridiculous is the fact that the minimum order is two of these hideous things.

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Feb 282012
 

Google Plus is a great service with many incredibly useful features. The problem with Google+ isn’t with the service itself. The problems with Google+ is with adoption. The first of two problems preventing widespread adoption of Google Plus is the complete misunderstanding that Google Plus is actually a social network. Well it kind of is, [...]

Feb 112012
 

I’ve been social networking for years. The professional networking site LinkedIn since 2007, Facebook since 2008, and  Twitter in 2009. That’s largely how it remained until recently when I got my new wi-fi mini tablet (which I still need to write about). Since getting the portable Android device, I’ve added a few more social networks. [...]

Dec 032011
 

Yesterday I was walking back from the Metro after work. It’s a mile walk. Just because I was curious, I took out my new Android mini-tablet (more on that in a future post) and ran one of several wi-fi scanning programs I have. These aren’t hacking apps. They’re just standard apps that scan for available [...]

Oct 072011
 

First lets establish what a QR code is: You’ve seen them on everything from storefront windows to magazine articles. They are two dimensional bar codes that you can scan with a smart phone to get more information about something. It doesn’t have to be but they are most often simply a website address. So in [...]

Mar 072011
 

A year ago I created The Usual Susspects for the purpose of separating all of my professional work from my personal ramblings. I moved all my personal ramblings here to this site with the goal of transforming my original domain into my professional portfolio website. It’s still not 100% done, but it was close enough [...]

Dec 202010
 

This “holiday” video from Klick is a lipdub montage of the most well-known internet memes of all time.  They’re having a contest where whomever can name the most internet memes seen in the video will win an iPad.  I was surprised that I already knew more than half of the references.  But since I expect [...]

Sep 022010
 

Do you have the latest Google Chrome browser installed?  If so, set aside ten minutes of your time and visit The Wilderness Downtown using Chrome.  It’s pretty impressive what the creators of this website have done with HTML5, but you really have to see it for yourself. Without giving too much away, you start off [...]