MyTechnobabble
Mark Schaffner
MyTechnobabble

Oh how I wish that was the message here.

It won't be a ghost town for much longer with the mass exodus I seem to be seeing both here and on other sites. My G+ feed has gone from "one post every few days" to "one every hour at least" in just one day.

I know of no fewer than 5 people from my small friends list alone who have abandoned FB alltogether, a couple of them going so far as to disable their account. I THINK there's a problem. It's just that thus far we've had the choice between MySpace, Friendster, and Facebook. Facebook chose the most idiotic time to

My foolproof method (and others I've suggested it to have tried it and it's worked for them as well) is to inhale until my lungs are full, hold that breath until it's uncomfortable (not to the point where you want to exhale rapidly and start gasping, just to where it's becoming difficult to hold it) wait another few

Mine always seem to happen at night. As I have sleep apnea, this is a real pain since I'm woken up by my machine being off, and it's usually 2am, I have no computer, no smartphone (can't afford it right now) no TV, nothing to entertain myself. The workaround I found over time was to have a laptop, keep it charged

I still believe, at least for Windows 7, that the Start Menu itself is one of the best application/document launchers I've ever used. There's a button on most keyboards dedicated to bringing it up, and you just hit that, type what you want, and hit return. Though I understand that with these other launchers there's

Not that I feel these articles shouldn't be posted at all, but out of curiosity is there some way to filter them out of the RSS feed? I tend to already know the information in these, and it kinda just gets in the way. This is your guys' site, you can post whatever you want, but I'd rather be spotting the articles I

Swear. Loudly and angrily. I'm relatively sure that their system is designed to detect things like that, since when I do my hold times are typically only a minute or two after I start rather than the 15-20 I've waited silently before.

Sorry, but that is a VERY flawed assumption based on that study. The study simply states that people given free money that they don't necessarily need and told to give it away were happier than the people who were told to spend it on themselves. Frankly, handing my money over to charity, for example, would make me

Yes, I noticed that as well. I do hope it's not happening on ALL of their posts because I don't often click through unless I notice something interesting in the post, and if 3/4 of it is being cut out I likely won't notice anything interesting...

They still make Zunes? I haven't seen one since, like, they first came out.

So would I.

I know, I was incredibly happy with my purchase as well, and at the time the prices were comparable so getting a Bluray player was a nice bonus, along with the standardized equipment.

I've heard of and seen wooden cases before. My main concern would simply be heat issues, and ventilation. Unlike aluminum, wood will trap the heat inside the case especially if there isn't much ventilation. I discovered just how bad this could be the day I had the brilliant realization that my PS3 uses a bluetooth

Or they'll take the approach of "We designed this software for Snow Leopard, not Lion, so it will remain incompatible, but if you'd like to MAKE it compatible you could always upgrade to CS6 which should be out in a few months!"

Isn't this information in the user guide for the iPhone? Even if it's not it wasn't hard for me to discover this the day I got mine years ago. I'm rather confused by these recent articles that seem to have the mentality of "here's how to do a simple task on a device that's been around for ages, just in case you

Agreed, I do graphic design on a Mac all day long. ⌘-C and ⌘-V most certainly work to copy files in the Finder.

So, wait... wait... drinking a lot of alcohol and refusing to sleep is going to make me do poorly in school!? Never would've thunk it.

I definitely can attest to this, though I tend to pick healthier foods when available to try to cub the effect. I work nights and sometimes getting sleep is damn near impossible since we've gotten a new dog and he likes to bark at anyone who might wander by the house. I've found that it's actually something my body

I live in Ohio my entire life and have never once heard about this law. Not in driver's ed, not on the driving tests, not even word-of-mouth from someone who claims it to be true. Is there any chance you have some actual reference from an official source stating that you can pass on a double-yellow line under