Thursday, August 23, 2018

How Not To Do IRL Policing: A Case Study of Canadian Biggotry

So here I am, again at the NOC of the world's most important but not necessarily the best Tier-I provider, UUNET.  Yes, me and my low vision, without finishing high-school, propelled ourselves to this little dark cubicle, and even I'm not sure how, for during my hiring interview I did not know that a router could cost more than the fifty dollars I paid for my non-WIFI one from Rogers.  In fact, I had never even bought a router at that point, as back then they all were rentals.  In fact, I am here in that seat every day of my life and forever will be, because let's face it, when one finds heaven, the soul stays in it forever.  Until I worked here, I did not even know that WI-FI was a thing.  Flip phones do not really have much wifiness to them, and WAP is not exactly a fun thing to explore, not for me with my blind eyes anyway - I prefer Gopher.

Monday, August 20, 2018

Billion Dollar Steering Committee of Google

When you are taller, people look up to you.  Not just physically and literally but figuratively, too.  This is perhaps why most Fortune 500 CEOs are taller than your average man, and no most of t hem are not female for a reason other than sexism.  Men are never preventing women from having top positions and from my forty years on this silly little rock of ours women are sabotaging their own efforts and dreams for the most part themselves and rarely can even admit this fact to themselves let alone to others.  But that's another story.  But when you are taller than others, people look up to you, and this is no exception in business logic, business leadership, and even nation building.  Google, is a taller corporation than any other, it's so tall, that it's been put atop the Alphabet pedestal even.  Now it's out there, in space, orbiting around us all, even the NSA looks up to those that let us speak with these very letters.  Let me put a G in here in honour of our new leaders whom I welcome with loving arms.  G is Good, G is Great, G is gnarly - WE LOVE G!

Monday, May 21, 2018

Google Drive Needs a YouTube Folder

The Cloud.  Nature made it.  Humans imagined shapes for centuries and wondered what it would be like to have the Godly powers to make clouds of our own.  Now in the 21st century, we are those Gods, we can make clouds.  Albeit digital ones, but still, now on our little Earth there are two types of clouds and it’s way better, this thing called life, is it not?  Even Google got into the game and offers Google Drive as a cloud storage solution.  With it we can put any types of files and then access them from anywhere, anytime, with anything.  Any, any, any, it’s a thing, and I love it.  But with it come a few pitfalls, such as, if I can, so might you be able to.  This is the security component, and yet it’s not that simple.  Accessing clouds in the sky requires an airplane, and those are not cheap, and neither is the knowledge to hack a cloud.  So it’s okay, sorta.

Sunday, April 1, 2018

Notifications and Distractions Option

Perhaps like me some of you recall what browsing the web was like in the '90s.  Perhaps you did not exist yet - now that's a scary concept, eh?  That life was here and we all lived and partied before you even took your first breath, but believe me, there was the Internet before many of today's cell touting zombies knew how to tap.  When we tapped on a thin piece of glass as children, in reality nothing happened, but in our minds we were stepping through other dimensions.  And yet with all of our tapping today, the pot holes even in cities like Toronto remain unfilled and in disarray.  Graffiti still liters our urban cores and people still beg for change.  It seems all this feminism and macho love and tech movements achieved, well, very much in terms of entertainment, but not much else.