It’s no secret if you look around my blog that I’m a huge technology proponent. I enjoy the way that it improves our lives, and I also enjoy discussing the issues new technology raises. But every once in awhile I want to suggest improvements in hopes of swaying the guys who come up with “ideas” – even though I doubt they read my site. But I do it anyway, because companies spend millions of dollars every year in market research trying to find out what consumers want. The problem is …

I wrote a book of poems about technology, artificial intelligence, and the digital lifestyle, called .tech. The book is now on Scribd. Some of the poems are written in various programming languages and should actually run.
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To go along with the text, I also recorded one of the poems, “building”, read by the Apple “Adam” voice and with music from garage band. “building” is about building a computer. You can listen to it here:

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I have recently been asked if I will be starting my own twitter account. Before giving my answer I would like to fully explain the situation. Whenever I’m faced with a technological “advancement” for social networking, I go through 7 Stages. This was true with pagers, cell phones, email, facebook, online dating (which did not work out as I’d hoped), and finally blogging.
7 STAGES OF ACCEPTING TECHNOLOGY:
Stage 1: SHOCK & DENIAL: “YOU MANIACS!” Of course a cat is morally against creating “tweets” The very name is repulsive.
Stage 2: PAIN and GRIEF: …