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Category Archives: Technology
Doing Damage Control
My email account has been hacked. It is all over the news when some famous person’s account is hacked. There could be compromising information in their email. It is probably worth hacking to someone who wants to prove a point. … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Technology
Tagged Computer Virus, email, Hackers, insecure computer, Junk Mail, Passwords, spam, spammer, Spyware
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It’s a Social Media World
According to rapidly changing statistics, about 3.9 billion people or 81% of Americans use Facebook. Imagine that 3.9 billion people posting pictures of their cats and telling others where they are, what they are doing, what they are eating, and … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Technology
Tagged Cyberspace, Electronic communication, Facebook, Friend, Interaction, Likes, Shares, Virtual reality
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If Only Life Had an Undo Button
The “undo” button on some computer programs is a wonderful thing. Backspace will fix a little error like forgetting that the caps lock is locked or typing fdsjkl;ty when you got on the wrong row of keys. But for really … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Technology
Tagged Backspace, Buttons, Computer Programs, Errors, Fix it, Forgiveness, Mistakes, Re-do
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Solar Flares
The other day my phone stopped working. “Solar flares could have caused a computer glitch,” the phone company told me. “We’ve had hundreds of people with this problem.” Solar flares? I Googled it and sure enough a solar flare had … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Humor, Technology, Weather
Tagged Computer Crash, Computer malfunction, Hardware failure, internet, Metorite showers, Solar flares, Sun, technical difficulties
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Facebook Syndrome
Facebook is the most visited site on the internet. Over 2.80 billion people are regular users and half of them visit every day to post, network, socialize, or play games. Have you become addicted to Facebook? Can you really stop using Facebook … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Humor, Technology
Tagged Computer games, Friends, Homepage, internet, Likes, News Feed, Online, Posting, Social Media, Updates, Users
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Monitor Madness
There are many brilliant people employed in the invention, design, and manufacture and of household devices — unfortunately, none of them are ever involved with anything of mine. This week it was the computer monitor that died. It didn’t go … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Technology
Tagged Blue plug, Computer, electronics, Hardware, Installation, LED HD, Monitor, Planned obsolence, Power surge, Reboot
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Happy Online New Year
This is the time of the year when people make New Year’s Resolutions, resolving to change all things wrong in life and turn over a new leaf — to stop smoking, to lose weight, to clean closets, watch less television … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Technology
Tagged Addiction to computer, Blogging, Computer games, computers, Facebook, internet, New Year's Resolutions, Shopping online, Surfing the net, Twitter, Wasting time
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Humor Columnist Blog 
Wasting Time on Facebook
I got sidetracked this morning and didn’t get anything done. I’m always getting sidetracked. It’s Facebook. What is it that makes it so addictive? It is not as if I need any more distractions. There are plenty of them already … Continue reading →