Lovely and talented wife: You guys are ridiculous. Me: Come again? Wife: Every time you Skype, you guys spend the first 5 minutes talking about the echo. Me: No. Wife: You do! The echo is worse. The echo is better. Even when there’s no echo you talk about how the echo was the last time [...]

First of all, I’m not addicted to the internet—it’s my job. But I’m probably online over 12 hours per day, every day. When you’re online that much, you become accustomed to the rhythms and cycles of the internet just like you do the rhythms of any other “workplace.” When I worked in an office, Fridays [...]

Google Maps was amazing to begin with. So much easier and natural to use than any other mapping service on the internet. To make it even better they now provide a satellite overlay of any location. Just click the innocuous Satellite button in the upper right corner.

Er? I just looked up a word using Google and clicked the definition link. And instead of arriving at dictionary.com like I usually do, I ended up at answers.com. Unexpected, but nice. I like answers.com’s interface much better, especially that you don’t have to scroll past the annoying banner ad at the top of the [...]

Referrer logs can be fascinating. While reviewing mine today, I found out that this site is the #1 result for “tickle his feet” on Google followed immediately by several foot tickling fetish sites and then some more general sites about tickling. Whatever.