Category Archives: Digital Life

Squeezing in a little “fun” time

By Herb Everett | Published: 2/5/2010
My idea of “fun” lately has been to repurpose an old Mac G3 tower I bought for $5 more than three years ago into a Linux server. It’s been a valuable learning experience. The scary part is I’m actually enjoying the command line. I’m considering dropping a GUI interface on top to use from time to [...]
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On being clueless

By Herb Everett | Published: 1/30/2009
Ponder this quote for a minute: “If there’s someone out there who votes for the candidate who Twitters more, then we need to take away his voter-registration card.” It’s from Michael Palmer, who headed the new media operations for the McCain-Palin campaign, in the Wall Street Journal. Everyone, and I mean everyone, votes for their own reasons. Many [...]
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Addicting your kids at an early age

By Herb Everett | Published: 1/29/2009
This just isn’t right. It’s not! LeapFrog introduces “Baby BlackBerry” for kids. This is WAY too juvenile for our kids, though. They’re asking for the real thing.
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Gmail has themes!

By Herb Everett | Published: 11/21/2008
I guess I should have figured that there would be themes in Gmail because iGoogle does, but I just wasn’t paying attention. Playing around tonight, I found love in Shiny theme. I hope I don’t end up like Shiny fish.
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PBS redesigns parents Web site

By Herb Everett | Published: 8/22/2008
PBS Parents has redesigned its web site. Big news? I dunno. Just thought it was interesting. I am impressed by the orange; it woke me up this morning. A couple of areas do appear to be interesting: 1. The Guide to Understanding and Raising Girls section (it’s grape!!!!), and 2. Talking with Kids (more grape!!!!), providing [...]
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