Posted on 05/20/2020 in misc • Tagged with Coronavirus, Internet, Blogs
Like everybody else, the pandemic is "top of mind" 24 x 7 for me. I'm writing to help myself not internalize all of it. You can find other posts in the series at https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/tag/coronavirus.html
Nowadays especially it's nice …
Posted on 08/25/2019 in misc • Tagged with Books, Facebook, Twitter, Internet
Book Review: How to Do nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
I get the feeling that her publisher titled the book, as “How to do nothing” is not a descriptive title. I was expecting a how-to book more along the lines of Cal Newport’s Digital Minimalism. Instead …
Posted on 08/11/2019 in misc • Tagged with Internet, Privacy, Amazon, Facebook
It's not paranoia if they really are watching you.
Yesterday I bought this plumbing part at Lowe's. I did not search for it online, watch a YouTube video or in any way disclose online that I had a need related to plumbing repair. It's a $7 part and I knew …
Posted on 07/29/2019 in misc • Tagged with Internet, Twitter
In my 12 years on Twitter I've gone viral twice. The first time was 2015 and it was a stupid Dilbert cartoon. At least this time I added a line of my own commentary to a retweet. My tweets self-destruct after 14 days so this is mostly just to save …
Posted on 06/03/2019 in misc • Tagged with Internet, Marriage
Less Internet = Better Honeymoons?
It’s not often I write a blog post and the world validates my opinion so quickly the next post is on the same subject. But here we are. This NYT article is nuts. It’s about some couples who feel like they ruined their honeymoons …
Posted on 06/03/2019 in misc • Tagged with Internet, Amazon, Facebook
I read an article over the weekend about how the overwhelming number of choices you get when using Amazon and other sites is causing people to turn away from those sites. I just spent 15 minutes trying to find that article again and I can’t. So maybe I dreamed …