Tag Archive: internet

Eminem and The Fear of Success

“Look – if you had one shot, one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted in one moment, would you capture it, or just let it slip?” Eminem, “Lose Yourself” This past weekend was my best buddy’s bachelor party. We took him to Chicago on Saturday and spent the better part of the night at…

5 Better Alternatives To Watching TV

You just got home from a long day at work, and you feel fried. Your brain is running on fumes, and your body just wants to collapse on the couch. You want mindless entertainment, and fortunately, you’ve got hundreds of channels to choose from. You sit down, and from about 6:00pm until 11:00pm, the TV…

The Practical Nerd Podcast: Episode #15 – The Benefits of Disconnecting

(That’s not me in that picture.) Today’s podcast is a short one about disconnecting. We live in a world that is always “on” – TV always has crap to watch at all hours, our phones have our email, there’s Wi-Fi everywhere. There are a lot of benefits to just disconnecting from it all, even for…

Two More Great Chrome Extensions To Speed Up Your Browsing

A while back, I posted an article detailing my switch to Google Chrome as my main web browser. Even as I have switched to Ubuntu (and also to the awesome Chromium daily builds – all the latest features of Chrome come to my browser every day), I believe that Chrome is the best browser on the…

12 Reasons I Switched From Windows XP to Ubuntu

I truly believe there are some great practical reasons why Ubuntu Linux should be considered for the general public.

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