Over the past five or so years, I have never owned a smartphone. I started out with the good old Motorola Razr, and now I have an LG flip phone. These phones have served me well: they make calls, they have the basic “apps” such as a calendar, notepad, and camera, and they don’t break no matter how many times …
Today, The Thought Box turns five years old. I first registered this blog on WordPress on the 30th of May, 2009, to blog about my defeat in an epic Twitter battle. Looking back, that battle wasn’t really that epic. But the fact that this blog has been on the Internet for five years today is an event I wouldn’t have …
Creating presentations isn’t the hard part of a presentation. What’s hard is the set-up before the presentation. You plug in your flash drive (like the good old days), or you sign on to your cloud storage and find your slides (like the good less older days), or you log in to your email and download the presentation (like the good …
Up until a few months ago, I could not stand using my laptop in the dark. To cope, I would turn the screen brightness down to the minimum, but even then, my eyes would be cringing after several minutes. Then I would pull out the sunglasses, but that made the screen look all weird. What happened a couple months ago was …
Let’s say you’re browsing around on the Internet for sources and you come across a fantastic article. Everything’s there, except for one crucial component. The date of the article is missing. Now what, abandon ship? No, do an HTTP Header check!