In my earlier entry, Deactivation Contemplation, I was seriously questioning whether or not I was going to deactivate my Facebook account or not. I ultimately decided not to, for one main reason: Facebook Connect. Like OpenID, Facebook Connect makes registering and logging into websites much easier. I realized that I had created many accounts using [...]
I’ve been contemplating deactivating my Facebook account…at least until I feel Facebook gets their privacy controls under control. The only thing that is keeping me from doing it is that I actually find Facebook useful (or at least pleasantly distracting), and I don’t share too much of my life on it. If anything, it’s a [...]
When you search, you don’t want to be distracted. You want to submit a query and hope you get some good answers. Minimalism can help you accomplish this. It can keep you from being distracted, and can quickly walk you through the process. There’s only one major search engine that’s doing it, Google. Yahoo!, Not [...]
I always love Tuesday, because it’s the day new music is released on iTunes. Sometime it’s hit or miss, but today it was a new music hit. I found a new band called Two Door Cinema Club. They have a new album out today called Tourist History. They’re from Bangor and Donaghadee, Northern Ireland, and [...]
I’m anxiously awaiting the delivery of my iPad. In the meantime, I’ve already downloaded these iPad apps that are ready to be synced!
Unlike my LinkedIn account, I’ve never really liked Plaxo all that much. It has a history of being and feeling spammy, and it makes it too easy for people I’m not interested in finding and trying to follow me. I was reminded of that today, which also reminded me to delete my account with them. [...]
Spending entirely too much time on the Internet
