In the event you were not aware, Apple is accepting “thoughts, memories, and condolences” about the loss of Steve Jobs from anyone: fans, friends, Apple employees, literally, anyone. If you read last night’s update, you’ve already seen this first part, but I thought I’d share the email I sent in. […]
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As you have likely heard by now, moments ago Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, passed away. I never had the honor of meeting him personally. I’ve never even seen him in person. But despite that, I considered Steve Jobs a mentor – the greatest mentor I was never able to […]
That’s right, I love it. While I may still be re-training my new Feed to show me stuff I actually care about, it’s about time real-time became the standard, albeit filtered. For I think about a year now, I’ve been using twitter in real-time. The split second anything gets posted, […]
Today marks my nineteenth birthday (well, technically around 11:30pm is when I officially turn nineteen). Nonetheless, it now means that in one year I’ll have spent two decades on this planet and lived through two centuries. Looking back, a lot has happened in the world in the nineteen years that […]
Anyone who knows me well would probably be stunned by that title alone. I have never been particularly fond of Microsoft, nor their products. I’ve long considered them to be behind everyone else. However, I found out this week that it’s a different story when it comes to Microsoft and phones. Their […]
Earlier this week, on Twitter I mentioned I was planning on talking about one of the greatest lessons I’ve ever learned in life. This is a story I’ve told before, but only to a very small number of people, and usually not in much detail. My idea to write about this […]
Last updated: Saturday, September 3rd Added: Thank you for not sending me mail or shout outs on how to run my portfolio. It’s my portfolio, not yours. Thank you for not begging for return investments. Changed: Nothing Removed: Nothing I thought now might be a good time to discuss this topic. In recent […]
Yesterday on Twitter, I tweeted some thoughts about a device I own called a Poken. Shortly after doing so, I got a reply back from one of my followers that said “@francehopper I still don’t understand Pokens. O.o” That reply got me wondering, how many people actually know what a […]
I thought it might be a good idea to post this given some recent analytic data I’ve been seeing. It looks like there are still a fair amount of people trying to find The Official ZREO Podcast (TOZP for short). That said, let me give you the full rundown on […]
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist, or any other form of scientist for that matter, to contribute to science. Honestly, you don’t even have to be a computer genius anymore. BOINC is so simple, you can just install it and forget about it now. Best of all, it only takes […]
If you’ve never heard of Swackett, one or more of the following may be true for you: You still get the weather from the morning newspaper (It’s OK, I used to too) You still use Weather.com and get bombarded with ADs (Psst, Google “Weather:”) You wake up at 4am and […]
As you may recall, about two months ago I did a vlog on the state of the Borders bankruptcy. When I did the vlog, it was shortly after the Borders location in Philadelphia closed, which meant I no longer had a Borders store to shop at. However, there was still one […]
This isn’t really a question I get asked (read: actually never), but I thought it was something I should share regardless. No one showed me anime. No one said “Hey check this out, you might like it” to me. I began watching anime completely on my own. The way I […]
This isn’t a question I get asked often, but it is one people who know me have asked before. I get asked all the time by people why I don’t run Firefox. I’ll tell you why. I’ve run it before. It is one of the most horrendous resource hogs I have ever […]
I’ve finally stopped bing a lazy ass and have finished up the About pages, including adding yet another freaking profile about myself. As if I didn’t already have enough to maintain… *sigh* Oh well. In addition to now being able to view a profile on me, you can now drop me a […]
Given that I’m wearing a shirt I got from Crunchyroll today, I thought it’d be the perfect chance for me to share my thoughts on the site and service. But before I do that, I believe it’s fitting that I give a bit of background on how I started using […]