For so many years I have heard people make fun of cubicles and the people who inhabit them. Everything from TV shows to comic strips have long loved to insult the ever hated cube. Even the people working in them yearn for that corner office to escape the “cubicle monkey” namesake. I for one, don’t really get it. In my relatively short career I have worked at 3 different companies across 5 different office buildings and I have yet to find a cubicle I don’t enjoy. Have I just been lucky? How did I escape winding up like this guy? (this was later found to be fake, but the point is the same) Office Berzerker I can understand the cubicle monkey mentality, and I have seen some examples of really poor cubicle layout which makes it seem like you are working in a sweat shop, I think a lot of […]
Windows Vista, It Doesn’t Suck
I have been using Windows Vista for about a year now and while originally I was on the “Vista Sucks” bandwagon, I have since come to like it. I am going to try to explain why, as a long time computer user, I think Vista, doesn’t suck. Let me first preface this by giving a bit of my background and a little information about why you should listen to me. Firstly, since you are reading this, you obviously assert that my opinion on almost everything is vastly superior to anyone else’s, I mean, I have a blog; How can what I say not be right? On a more serious note though, I have been a windows user since the days of Windows 3.0. I was probably 12 years old at the time, but I still used it. I have also used almost every iteration of Windows since then. In case […]
Online behavior, hiding behind the keyboard
You know, one of my favorite pastimes is arguing with people over the intertubes. I’m not sure why but it’s always fun to verbally assault people when there is no risk or repercussion. I have to say though, that recently I feel this once fun pastime has taken a turn for the worst. I feel like almost everyone on the internet is a guy like this: I have spent a lot of time on message forums, IRC, online games, and where ever else you can chat with people online over the years. It seems though, that as the generation of kids after my generation is beginning to mature, absolute ignorance is beginning to run incredibly rampant online. It started out with innocent abbreviations, you know LOL, BRB, OMG, things like that, now online language has turned into a completely different animal…I am honestly not sure sometimes if the kids even […]
Why can’t I just be successful online?
Why?! Not for lack of trying thats for sure. For the past seven or eight years, I have tried time and time again to fulfill my life goal: Becoming so successful on the internet that I can quit my day job. This might sound unrealistic, but is it? How hard can it be to make enough to earn a living online? I’m not trying to become a millionaire, just maybe $80,000 would suffice. So why can’t I do it? I think I know. Long-term motivation. Let me go through a list of projects I have attempted and why they failed: WerkkreW Productions This was the original reason I bought werkkrew.com. It was a joint venture to support and promote local music. Essentially we were a miniature record label/record promotion company started when we were all about 16 years old. This company lasted about 4 years actually but it never did […]
The Future of Video Cards
As someone with a Computer Engineering degree from a pretty well respected university, you might think my opinion on this subject might actually have some sort of merit. I have been thinking about it a lot, and I really don’t think anything I can say on this subject is any more relevant then what a 6 year old would say, but I’ll give it a shot. Recently, a couple of things have happened between Intel and nVidia, a little bad blood you could say. Essentially Intel has made claims recently that in the not-so-distant future the graphics card as a separate pc component will become unnecessary, as Intel works to move the graphics processing features onto the die of the CPU itself. Now before I go into nVidia’s rebuttal, I would like to focus on this for a moment, and analyze it. I believe that in the future chip manufacturers […]
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