An Obvious Solution

Posted on May 15, 2013 by metrospirit

iPhone? Great. But there’s a little problem with Siri. A couple of weeks ago my phone died. It wasn’t the pixelated-screen or scratchy-sound kind of dead. It was the ain’t-no-way-I’m-working-ever-again kind of dead. To their credit, Verizon was wonderful. I…

Fighting Terror with Tech

Posted on April 17, 2013 by metrospirit

Social media helps in the aftermath of the bombings in Boston The big news of the week is the terrorist attack in Boston. Our thoughts and prayers are with those whose lives were lost or otherwise forever changed. And our…

Judgement Day?

Posted on March 26, 2013 by metrospirit

Remember the Terminator, people! Every once in a while, you come upon a headline that makes you scratch your head. No, I’m not talking about the wired.com article this week, “Want to Make an Alligator Angrier Than Normal” (uh… why?)…

Please Help

Posted on February 20, 2013 by metrospirit

Adventures in customer service Yes? Hello? I need to talk to someone about my printer. … Well, the darn thing doesn’t print… More specific? Well — let’s see — I’m in my Word, and I click on the printer button,…

Taxing Begins at Home

Posted on February 13, 2013 by metrospirit

How Augusta may have influenced political history In honor of my good friend Josh Ruffin, this week I wanted to write some sort of commemorative piece on the 100th anniversary of the income tax. In short, the 16th Amendment was…

Charged Up

Posted on September 7, 2012 by metrospirit

Please Connect Your Charger How many of you have this experience with your phone? Every day at about 2:30 p.m., I check the power on my phone. Eighty percent. Awesome… I’ll be able to make it to the end of…

Smart Phones, Not People

Posted on August 17, 2012 by metrospirit

But we already knew that machines have more sense that some of us “Man Butt Dials 911 During Drug Deal” — Maybe some of you saw this headline last week. It seems that a 24-year-old Pennsylvania man was involved in…

Kicking It Old School

Posted on July 27, 2012 by metrospirit

Please Pass the Floppy — So the call came last Saturday night. “I rebooted my server and it’s not coming back up. I’m getting a blue screen that says I should contact my administrator — That’s you, right?” Yep. That’s…

Space — The Final Frontier… Been There, Done That

Posted on July 20, 2012 by metrospirit

This past weekend, the wife and kids left me to fend for myself while they enjoyed some time at the beach. On the plus side, I found myself with an interesting Friday night TV dilemma. The SyFy channel was running…

This Is Not the Apocalypse

Posted on July 13, 2012 by metrospirit

DNSChanger — News alert! It seems that everyone (meaning, the national media) last week figured out that computers can get viruses, and that these viruses can cause computers to break. Wow! How about that! Just in case you were hiding…