Geek On The Hill

As my followers (both of them) know, I recently tried out #DirecTV Now, a streaming version of the company’s satellite programming service. I tried it for about three days before getting fed up with the service. It has more bugs…

This is a video of a yearling Southern painted turtle that arrived today. It was pretty cold outside, so even though the turtle was packaged with a heat pack, I wanted to give it time to warm up at its…

One thing that I’ve noticed that’s different about living up here in the boondocks compared to when I lived in The City is that Craigslist isn’t nearly as good a place to find bargains. It’s quite the opposite, in fact.…

The World Wide Web has resulted in more rapid and radical changes to society than any technology since man learned to harness fire. Of that there can be little doubt. The free availability of information about any topic, to anyone,…

I remember it quite well, though to my regret, I didn’t take note of the date. I wish I had. I would like to erect a tombstone emblazoned with “Google Adsense” somewhere in the woods behind my house so I…

I’ve spent most of the past three weeks or so rebuilding one of my Web sites to make it mobile-friendly. Normally it wouldn’t take me so long to make a site that I built myself mobile-friendly because the way I…

As with every generation, mine has made mistakes. We’re passing on problems to the next generation that we might not be if we’d had better foresight. Some of these problems were ones that we caused, while others we merely failed…

I took out a subscription to DirecTV’s “Now” online streaming service three days ago. I canceled it today and filed a dispute with the credit card issuer. That’s the short version. The longer version is that in my opinion, this…

My post yesterday about the reasons I believe brick-and-mortar retail chains are dying got rave reviews from my readers and fans. Both of them. So I thought I’d follow it up with a post about a retail chain that’s an…