Category: Tech
Peepless in Seattle: Dating, Friendship, and the Seattle Freeze After Forty
Why 20 thousand additional men in a city might make finding meaningful romance more difficult — for everyone.
Hacking Weight Loss: What I Learned Losing 30 Pounds
May 2015 Update: My weight loss has totaled 35 pounds. I now weigh 165 lbs. Thank you everyone for your comments, well wishes and best of luck to you with your own health. Thanks also to Slashdot for sharing this post with their...
Why You’re Not Smart Enough to Work At Google
While attempting to set up a new Google DoubleClick for Publishers account for a tutorial I’m writing, I ran into some of Google’s advanced authentication systems. Those folks are such geniuses. They call it nO-Auth. You could never work at...
Why Clinton Email Server Has Legs
The political left may want the media to let the Clinton email server story die but I think it highlights some of the more troubling aspects of our experience with the Clinton legacy. While the most obvious reason Hillary Clinton...
Funded By Seattle Real Estate Developers, Forbes Writer Attacks Amazon Critic
Upton Sinclair said, “it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it*.” This is evident in Roger Valdez’s column in Forbes today (How Jobs and Awkward White Men Are Destroying a...
Un-truthful Carrier: Ten Lies T-Mobile Told Me About My Data Plan
Last June, I wrote a post called “Yes, You Can Spend $750 in International Data Roaming in One Minute on AT&T” which quickly went viral. In it, I mentioned my plan to switch to T-Mobile which led to this tweet...
Most Frustrating iPhone Touch ID “Feature”
Clearly as we rely more on our devices, their security is more important than ever. But in the case of Apple’s iOS Touch ID hardware, I cannot understand for the life of me why Apple’s made security more paranoid than I will...