The next Nigerian Spam you get

Coming soon to your inbox: “This must be handled in the utmost confidence. I have recently been given control of a certain asset, and need your assistance to get it out of the country. In return for the use of your account, you will retain 50% of the asset. Please forward your lead vault details.” […]

Shortly to be atop blogdex… if it's not already

Based on the popularity of Why Nerds Are Unpopular among bloggers, I predict that Caring for Your Introvert will soon rocket to the top of the chart. And since I had to go there to find the link for the nerd article, I can tell you that the introvert thing is certainly climbing. That Readiness […]

Pix Messaging

BBC piece on Picture messaging. Vodafone is suggesting various “creative” ways to use everyday objects to convey messages. Based on what I know of the text messages people send each other on their phones, I predict there will be (or already are) a lot of pictures of genitalia flying across the network, meaning everything from […]

like Blogdex?

A blog rating tool, Technorati. I may have to investigate their rating methodology- it seems to involve Google- the latest suspect in the “Dark Web Conspiracy” (which boils down to laziness- yes, I’m guilty, too.).

Philosophical Connections

N.B.: This post will almost certainly not help you play Connections; at most, it will give you my understanding of how the writers assign colors to categories. The Question I resisted playing NYT Connections for quite a while, but now I play it daily (yes, the NYT is awful; I do not pay them (I […]

iPhone 16 Pro Case Study

2024 was phone upgrade year for me, moving from my iPhone 13 Pro to a 16 Pro. New phone also means new case, and I have become accustomed to having a wallet/folio case. For my 13, I was using the Decoded Leather Wallet case (no affiliate links, and I have received no compensation from any […]

Kaiju Preservation Society Review

The Kaiju Preservation Society, Scalzi. Yes. I’m nominally in the middle of something like three other books (yes, the Culture re-/read is still happening, and there are reviews of two or so of those waiting for me to commit them to the ether), and I burned through this one more quickly than I’ve read a […]