By: The Philosophical Fish|16 January, 2012|Categories: Just Thinking|Tags: critical thinking . postaday . relationships . technology
Two years ago I voiced my dislike of a certain social media, some things haven’t changed. Bulletin Boards, MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, DeviantArt, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+. There has been an explosion of social sites in recent years. Some have grown into useful networks. Some have stayed as annoying as they were when they started. Some started out looking useful and morphed…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|29 January, 2011|Categories: Photo a Day - 2011|Tags: 365 . Daily Shoot . photography . technology
29/365 (January 29, 2011) – Funny. The world gets smaller and smaller because we have so many forms of communication. Facebook, Flicker, Twitter, email, Skype, cell phones have all shrunk the global community.
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|19 November, 2010|Categories: Photo a Day - 2010|Tags: 365 . monochrome . photography . technology
By: The Philosophical Fish|27 September, 2010|Categories: Photo a Day - 2010|Tags: 365 . computer . mac . photography . technology
270/365 (September 27, 2010) – I have a new toy, not Wall-E, he’s not new. I picked up a Snowflake microphone on sale at Future Shop that has all kinds of possibilities. All new MacBooks and all iMac computers have iSight cameras and microphones built into them, but the 30″ Cinema display on the MacPro doesn’t (well, the really newly…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|23 May, 2010|Categories: Just Thinking . Videos|Tags: balance . happiness . technology . video
This is a video that really does make you reflect a bit on the absurdity of the things that we complain about….
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|19 April, 2010|Categories: Photo a Day - 2010|Tags: 365 . mac . photography . technology
109/365 (April 19, 2010) – I’m frustrated right now. I bought a new GPS specifically to use with my Mac…and guess what, despite all assurances that it would, on arrival, work…it did not. It happily connects to my old PC via Bluetooth, and my other Bluetooth GPS happily connects to my Mac, but each will not pair with the other.…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|20 January, 2010|Categories: Just Thinking|Tags: technology
I can’t stand Twitter. But I promised myself to minimize the ranting. So I’ll just say this much. I use a news gatherer called Socialite. It’s fantastic, I love it, it gathers all the posts from various feeds I follow. Everything from the Globe and Mail and CBC News, to a few blogs by friends, a Digital Photography newsgroup, a…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|03 November, 2009|Categories: Just Thinking|Tags: technology
I love email. And I hate it at the same time. It can be the most amazing time saver. And it can be the bane of your existence. I’ve had the same (well one of them anyway) email address since 1992. Since before most people even knew what email was actually. And what I’ve noticed in the past 17 years…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|24 September, 2009|Categories: Just Thinking|Tags: canada . food . technology
We went to a Canucks pre-season game last night (Thanks Web!) and I marveled yet again at a Canadian (I think) invention. I’m not really a major hockey fan, but Kirk keeps working on me and slowly but surely I am starting to get the rules and see the penalties as they happen instead of incessantly asking “What did he…
Read more »By: The Philosophical Fish|04 November, 2008|Categories: Just Thinking|Tags: flickr . Greece . technology . Travel
In my last post I was grumbling about the nature of the internet leading to vitriol and general nastiness. True, I still feel that way, but at the other end of the spectrum I have to admit that I’ve actually met some very nice people in a way that I never thought would happen. Over the past 15 years on…
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