Before the Internet, sayings and memes had to travel by word of mouth, so it’s not surprising that many of the sayings with staying power are still around because they protected their main transmission vector, namely, your mouth. No one’s familiar with the prehistoric saying, “This is how you taunt a t-rex” because the people […]

Users could face fines of up to £500k if they cause a data security breach! London, 20th January 2010 – A survey released today reveals that in the last year, 4,500 memory sticks have been forgotten in people’s pockets as they take their clothes to be washed at the local dry cleaners. From 6th April […]

Jay Lee discusses how social media is being used to help in the relief efforts in Haiti

J.R Cohen of Coffee Groundz also dropped in with delicious cake balls for the hosts and guests.

Allright. A Happy New Year to all! The Holidays are now behind us and I hope we all got a little of the tech we had been waiting for. We’re also back into the normal line-up of User Group Meetings, starting with this Saturday’s general meeting of the Linux SIG at Hal-PC. Things get started […]

Jay’s wife Cynthia wrote this for us and we’d like to share it with everyone TECHNOLOGY CHRISTMAS An original poem by Cynthia Lee T’was the Night before Christmas, in Technology house No computers were active, not even a mouse. Virtual stockings were hung by a flat screen display In hopes that Santa Geek would be […]

and here’s the Snuggie for real men!

This Sunday afternoon, come out to Caroline Collective for the “Can-Do Technology Bash”, a celebration of do-it-yourself and hands-on technology. Demonstrations will include a build-your-own water pump, robots, LED projects, a solar cooker, and the Makerbot 3D printer. Or bring along your own project to share with the community. It is a free event, but […]

All right – the weather outside is getting colder, and the holiday season is now fully upon us. Decorations and gift giving definitely seem to highlight this time of the year, but that wasn’t always the case. Gift Giving in the modern sense didn’t really get underway until the 1820s. The first advertisements for Christmas […]