Tiny Specks of Misery, Both Vile and Useful
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Itâs easy to hate viruses for their freeloading ways, but they have also repaid us in ways we are just beginning to tally.
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Please quote me on this Stob There's another of those lists of supposedly amusing/sage/cute adagesÂ going around, bouncing from blog to email, accumulating fresh contributions and occasional edits and doing all the meme-ish things that memes do. This one differs from all the others that you have deleted irritably from your email inbox in that it includes a contribution taken from this very column.â¦
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Are you still immersed in daily drudgery that could be easily automated with simple coding? One book aims to show you how to break free.
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On the Mark: The blame game within IT can slow the resolution of problems reported by end users. But there are tools that can put a stop to all the finger-pointing, Mark Hall writes.
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Sometimes, it pays to be a looky-loo.
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An invitation to a conference on the politics of waste leads to thoughts on the relationship of dirt and technology -- thoughts that lead inexorably to the trash-can icon on personal computers. Commentary by Momus.
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You can learn a lot from writing a newspaper column, especially when a reader calls in to say that you're wrong. I've just received a revealing critique that foreshadows a nasty new escalation in the battle over our digital rights.
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With gadgets, smaller is generally better -- with a few exceptions. Wired lists five gadgets for which manufacturers' mania for extreme miniaturization is actually a liability.
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Mike Elgan reports on a device that lets you rat out fellow movie-goers for being annoying.
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âHomo Politicusâ ought to be a solemn book, but it reeks of unseemly glee.
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Think your job is  killing you? A humorous Web site set up by an online recruiting  firm shows you exactly how bad things are.
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Fighting clutter? Here's how to clear it out.
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When I suggested in a recent column that a problematic 5 percent of employees account for 75 percent of the IT support burden, I expected a wave of âright on!â letters from IT support staffers. After the column was published, the letters did come â most of them disagreeing with my premise, with one reader suggesting that the real whiner was yours truly. I still think itâs outside the realm of overextended IT departments to provide training on basic computing skills (which I defined as âmanaging and finding files, and basic working knowledge of suites such as MS Officeâ). But my thinking was adjusted a bit by the thoughtful feedback.
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By Joseph Szydlowski  If you took a look inside your trash can, what would you see?   Junk mail? Coffee grounds.
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Fags, mags and... er... digital music download vouchers
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If Steve Jobs & Co. were truly evil, this kind of stuff wouldn't be funny. But it is. Honest.
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Spam makes sense. Sure, most of it reads like filthy gibberish. But the authors of this dreck are not semi-literate perverts. They're cool, rational business folk who have found a sleazy but effective way to make a buck.