Category Archives: Technology

Technology and the Need to be Constantly Connected

We’ve all seen those people, the ones who take their laptops everywhere, and actually USE them everywhere, or the ones who constantly have their cell phones out checking some social networking service or another or who can’t stop text messaging no matter what else they’re doing.  Heck, a lot of the time, I’m one of… Continue Reading

Can You Really Work From Home?

With as many websites and ads as I come across every day touting “work-at-home” opportunities, I’m honestly not convinced that these opportunities exist. Some of them I’ve read through and dismissed immediately as scams; others I’ve followed though and tried. The ones I’ve followed though have been a mixed bag. Some of them were completely… Continue Reading

Video Game Therapy

I’m not talking about any kind of scientific therapeutic method here. I’m just talking about getting a little self-help out of something that is mostly considered to be bad for you and your mental health, or at the very best, neutral. Video games get a lot of bad publicity, mostly for being detrimental to children… Continue Reading

The Web as a Medium for Communication – The Good and the Bad

With the way society is structured now, a large percentage of our socialization occurs through means OTHER than seeing people face to face. Telephone and writing letters used to be the only two options for communicating with the people in our lives unless we were face to face. Now, they’re mostly obsolete, and the methods… Continue Reading

Addicted to Gadgets

There’s just something about electronics, isn’t there? We all have our toys; some of us more so than others. I have to admit that I fall into that second category. I am a gadget fanatic. I’m lucky that the closest Best Buy is forty minutes away, and moving away from Fry’s Electronics in San Diego… Continue Reading

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