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As I’m sure I’ve stated before, I’m a TV junkie.  I watch more of it than I should.  I can say more about shows I’ve never seen than most can say about their favorite show.  I’ve got my DVR programmed to record a dozen or so series’ this fall (with 2 kids under 5, I rarely get to sit and watch what I want, when I want).  And yet I’m now coming to find I may be able to cancel a number of those items in my queue due to Hulu. (continue reading…)

I was reviewing my home page tonight and I couldn’t help but notice that every ad that was displayed on it was politically-oriented.  This, in and of itself, didn’t surprise me – most of the posts I’ve written in the past 2 weeks have been related to coverage of the conventions and the candidates.  The detail that I found personally disturbing, though, was that most of these ads seemed to mention McCain and/or Palin (or if they mentioned Obama, it seemed negatively tinged).   (continue reading…)

In my line of work, it is critical that I am on top of all of the latest browsers and internet technologies.  So when Google suddenly decided to release their own browser 2 days ago (called Chrome), I was right on top of it.  I read the comic book intro for it while I was waiting for the download to be available (btw, awesome way to describe … well … anything – much more interesting than reading an article … hrm).  Some of the features sounded really cool and smart.  Some of them worried me a little (at least on a professional level).  After using it (which I am right now to write this), most of my concerns were quickly abated and all of the features were as good as or better than I expected. (continue reading…)

I will admit that I’m not big on online social networking.  Maybe I’m too old or it just doesn’t seem important enough, but I don’t have a page on FaceBook or MySpace (actually I do have one on MySpace, but only for work-related testing – I have no friends there, I even deleted Tom).  I don’t have any interest in Twitter, and most of the web content I read is for news/information.  I signed up a few years back on Classmates, but only to try and find some old friends from high school – I don’t keep my information current.  To all of this, there is one exception – LinkedIn. (continue reading…)