Ever wonder what a real holy artifact looks like? I present you with the humble can of starting fluid. It prevents more evil thoughts and 4-letter words each year than any cross or set of beads.
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Engineers isolated from customers
For the techie folks out there: Reading an article regarding Amazon’s success implementing a distributed micro-services architecture and I came across this success factor bullet. “Developers should spend some time with customer service every two years. Their they’ll actually listen to customer service calls, answer customer service e-mails, and really understand the impact of the […]
Math nerd alert!
If you can make it through one of these videos, you might be a math nerd… https://www.youtube.com/user/numberphile
Self-driving?!
This is what’s scary about the new self-drive technology. It’s brought to you by the same folks that can’t even keep an entertainment system running. If not already, I’m sure Robin Cook is in the process of drafting a novel about self-drive technology failure. https://jalopnik.com/fiat-chrysler-pushed-a-uconnect-update-that-causes-cons-1822939437
Run spot, run!
Robotics is here… https://gizmodo.com/boston-dynamics-unsettling-robodog-can-now-escape-thro-1822936573
Up with the times
Checking one of our Federal Government’s web sites… found this with regard to download of a file I’m interested in: “Download Speed in Minutes (56Kbps Dial Up),” – ROFL!!! I haven’t used a 56Kbps dial up modem since we moved from BBS systems back in the 90’s. I’m going to poke around some more. I’m […]
Darwin award
Leading candidate this year… https://hothardware.com/news/man-bites-iphone-battery-sparking-explosion-mouth
Desperate moves…
Missed the last digital wave, so lets jump on this one early. Here’s looking t you Kodak. http://www.ibtimes.com/sec-looking-companies-vapid-blockchain-hype-2644217
Security FAIL
3rd time in less than a month I’ve gone to log into a company’s site and found out they deleted my account because I hadn’t used it in the last several months… one was my bank. I’m all for security, but good god that is an idiotic policy! When I contacted my bank they said […]
BitConnect
If you want an example of the risks of cryptocurrency, yesterday BitConnect (BCC) ceased operations due to law suits (and other factors). In a single day, nearly $3B, yes billion with a B, of investors cash went POOF! Sorry folks, much better odds at the craps tables.








