Since my J.O.B. involves working in academic environments, I’m naturally attuned to anything going on in that arena. Techdirt reported today on a new Slashdot article about how professors want to pull the internet plug in classrooms. This is not…
Today in the mail my 14 year old daughter received a mailing from National American Miss inviting her to “audition” for their pageant. My daughter is pretty, and I suppose getting a piece of mail like this is flattering. Except.…
Well, not exactly. In fact, not even close. Much discussion circles around audio-to-text conversion, especially in the disability services community. Bill Gates even believes (and has believed for more than 10 years) that we are on the very cusp of…
Much is said in tech circles about how you must protect your equipment from viruses, spyware, adware, Trojans, you name it. I have recently completed a three-year experiment with an unprotected laptop, that I used every day, and on multiple…
I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself before I posted my first entry to Geek News Central’s blog. I’m a long-time listener and fan of the Geek News Central podcasts, and a sometime caller and commenter, and branching out into writing a few tech blog entries seemed to be a smart step to take.