Tag Archives: Technology

Hunting Without Killing

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Terry Taylor

The sky opens the morning to a ceiling of porcelain blue above the pines and rusted leaves. A man in a bright orange cap and vest leans across a rail from a hunting stand letting the 20-gauge shotgun settle on … Continue reading →

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Water, Water, Everywhere, Or Not.

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Terry Taylor

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. Tweet This Post

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Mouse/Keyboard Friction Energy

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Terry Taylor

I am no mechanical genius and while I know a few engineers, I am not one. But I do know this: I have a wireless keyboard and a wireless mouse and it seems like I am constantly changing or recharging … Continue reading →

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Copywriters Don’t Write Anymore

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Terry Taylor

In a digital world were words are less important than the ideas they  convey, the craft of writing is changing. Hell, it has changed, drastically.  I’m not saying that all copywriters are becoming keyboard mutes, I’m saying that snippets and … Continue reading →

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3Damned Awesome

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Terry Taylor

The new high-end LED/LCD, 3D HDTV’s are ruining my old school eyes, but not in a painful way. It is delightfully devious retina ruination, an eye-opening bite of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, like in Genesis. … Continue reading →

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The Endless Kindle

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Terry Taylor

The new graphite-colored Kindle DX has a bigger screen (9.7 inches), 50% better contrast, 4GB of storage, 3G wireless network, a battery that goes a week between charges and holds up to 3,500 books. Sure, it costs $359.00, but let’s … Continue reading →

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“Droid Does” Some Things You Might Not Expect

Posted on May 19, 2010 by Terry Taylor

A week after getting my new Droid, it did something I have never seen and is not advertised on the “Droid Does” commercials. It scrambled my email – all of it. Not just one account, but three: work, home, personal, … Continue reading →

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One Week Almost Unplugged

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Terry Taylor

Last week, I did a little traveling with my family. We went to several places we used to live. We made a week of it. Where I went is unimportant. It became more about why. Tweet This Post

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The American Web

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Terry Taylor

Harvard’s Institute of Politics has released a poll indicating that young people are worried about the future – and not so positive about their chances in it. The pessimism ranges from financial concerns to doubts about their ability to afford … Continue reading →

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What Is Unusual?

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Terry Taylor

Have you seen the commercials for Chantix? It is a smoking cessation prescription medication. All of these pharmaceutical commercials have a long recitation of side effects and warnings. We have heard them for years: constipation, nausea, gas, etc. Everything on … Continue reading →

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SEO and the Words You Need To Get It

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Terry Taylor

Blogs are usually short, pithy, quickly-read, Seth Godin-ish snippets of 400 words or less. If the blog goes longer than that, experts advise you to break up your verbiage with subheads or lists. The things I mostly write here would … Continue reading →

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Crystal Balls

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Terry Taylor

A recent national Yankolovich study concludes that the future will be less global and more local. It will hinge more on personal responsibility in how we treat each other and the planet (among other things). It will be built around … Continue reading →

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Police Scanners, Y’all

Posted on November 27, 2009 by Terry Taylor

I will get some argument here, but I have noticed a severe proclivity for usage of police scanners among Southern men. I’m sure that’s just because I have seen a lot of police scanners in my travels through the South. … Continue reading →

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Business As Unusual

Posted on November 25, 2009 by Terry Taylor

I have recently been thinking about what will happen when we take the media out of social media and build more network into social networking. I am not the only one. David Armano at the Dachis Group recently gave a … Continue reading →

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Print The Future

Posted on October 30, 2009 by Terry Taylor

Did you know that you can make a functioning product or a part for a machine by just scanning it and letting a 3-D printer build it instantly? Have you ever seen a 3-D printer? Can you grasp just how … Continue reading →

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