October 2014 - My New Old Self

Happy #InternetDay! May our treasured net stay forever free!

Oct

29

2014

Happy Birthday, dear Net. Congratulations on reaching 45 years of age! It was on the 29th of October in 1969 that two computers in northern California made a connection. A computer at UCLA connected to one at Stanford University and began to send an electronic message. It didn’t go that well. The first two letters of the ...

7 Surprising Things You Didn’t Know about The Paralyzed Man Whose Nose Helped Him Walk Again

Oct

24

2014

My New Old Self has succumbed to the reported pulling power of the Enticing List format. Apparently grillions more of you will read this article if you are lured by this kind of headline. The key is to start with a number – of things which are surprising, shocking, outrageous… The 7 Surprising Things I’m ...

To Do and Not To Do: The Non-Bucket List 4

Oct

7

2014

I am proposing an alternative to the Bucket List. You know those lists people make of things they dream of doing before they “kick the bucket”. A term popularized by a mediocre 2007 movie showcasing aging stars Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson, the Bucket List has come in for criticism of late. It partakes of ...

Hurry up and die, says the net to old people

Oct

1

2014

I started typing the words “old people should…” Here’s how Google finished the sentence. Do try this at home. Watch closely as you type “old people should” into Google’s Chrome, Microsoft’s Bing, Mozilla’s Firefox – or a search engine that respects your privacy and doesn’t track you like DuckDuckGo or StartPage. Whichever one you use, it will immediately start ...