Technology

Your Financial Data Sold for $65

Well, this definitely doesn’t apply to everyone — but it did affect over a million people in the United Kingdom. A laptop owned by a company that is actually supposed to protect financial data was sold on eBay for $65, but luckily it was sold to an IT person who reported it to the [...]


Let Me Teach You

Want to learn how to build a web site? Don’t know how to register a domain name? Confused as to how it all works? Never fear! You can just attend my workshop at St. Vincent College this Tuesday morning.
I’ll be teaching 3 different workshops in the next few months through my partnership [...]


No More Pandora? WTF?

I read this article after seeing it listed on TechCrunch and it made me sick to think that Pandora might go away as a result of the fees that they have to pay to stream each song that they play via their web site. The part that sucks (and that I didn’t know before [...]


Customer Service: Garmin

This is the first of (I assume) many postings about customer service experiences that I’ve had. I want to share them with you, the readers of my blog, in the hopes that you are able to learn about the good or bad things that a company has done and either make sure to patronize a [...]


How PennTAP Came To The Rescue

Penn State just published a great article about the organization that I work for and our results for 2007. I really enjoy my job and the clients that I get to work with, so it’s great to see our results year after year. I just can’t believe that in 5 years I’ve worked [...]


Does What Happens In The Facebook Stay In The Facebook?

I’ve enjoyed using Facebook for the past year or so. It’s helped me reconnect with long lost friends and kept me up-to-date on what’s going on in people’s lives. I know that part of the fun about Facebook is to reveal some of your personal information, but this web site (and what it says about [...]