30 April
2009
Moved to Twitter
You may have noticed that I do not update my web log anymore. I feel like this blog has run its course. Although, this does not mean that you have lost your ability to keep track of everything Steve. Enter Twitter. I know, I know. Thats the new service all the kids are talking about so that egotistical folks can tell their mundane bits of information to the world. I'm not saying that doesn't happen, but don't judge the service based on the poor Twittering of a few. You wouldn't ignore email simply because people use it to send spam, right? Same thing applies here. Twitter has been a fun endeavor for me and I hope that you can use it too.
Follow me here:
http://twitter.com/unceman
13 October
2008
01 October
2008
Losing Confidence in the American Voter
What is it going to take to convince you people?
Election time is upon us. Usually its a time for excitement, but my excitement is waning because I fear the worst possible scenario: Four more years of Bush.
When I first heard that Barack Obama was running for president, I was energized. He represented a more progressive, more contemporary approach than any other candidate we have seen in recent history. With George W. Bush running the country into the ground over the past few years, I expected a backlash from the American voters eager to embrace a new direction for the country. Obama seemed like the logical choice to lead that change.
What happened to my optimism? The American people seem to be accepting John McCain's vapid, bewildering and meandering campaign about nothing. He seems to be willing to continue the destruction of this country that George W Bush has started. Plus, by choosing the wholly unqualified Sarah Palin as a running mate, McCain should have disqualified himself from any serious contention to the Presidency. However, we are amidst a tight race between Obama and McCain.
Does an African-American scare you that much? Or do you rely on Fox News and Rush Limbaugh for all of your political information? Even a staunch Republican should realize that they are being sold a bunch of snake oil in the form of McCain/Palin. The longer this race is close, the more chance we have of repeating the worst times of my adult life. So I am preparing myself for *gulp* President McCain. If you need me, I'll be in Canada.
20 August
2008
Caved In
My losing battle against social networking technologies
I use Facebook.
Feels good to be able to admit that. For a long time I had a circle of friends that were into Facebook. They would keep asking me to join up so that I could do all the cool stuff that they were doing. Eventually I signed up to see what the big deal was. It was exactly what I thought it was: a glorified message board. I lost interest in it quickly. Those same friends kept using it though, and kept asking me to come back. What I then learned is that your Facebook experience is what you make of it. You get out of it what you put into it.
I then started to take it bit more seriously. I installed all the silly applications, which in hindsight were...well...silly. I got rid of those quickly. I kept finding people to become my Facebook friends. High school classmates, college drinking buddies, former co-workers. Many of which I would never have connected with any other way. My list of friends quickly grew. But the real clincher was keeping track of their day to day activities. Yeah, I know that this is following the mundane, but I could not discount its value to me. I caught myself going back, over and over again. Now I consider it a worthy networking medium for me. I think I have figured out how to use it in moderation and now I can recommend it to others.
Spider-Man: Kraven's Last Hunt
