Category: Rants

  • The Rise of AI in Content Generation: Will Spammers and Bots Become Smarter and Harder to Spot?

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized various industries, from healthcare to finance and marketing. One domain where AI has made significant strides is content generation. AI-powered tools, like chatbots and language models, have become increasingly sophisticated in producing human-like text. However, this advancement raises concerns about the potential misuse of AI in generating spam and bot…

  • Beware of Scam Sites

    We have all seen the fake duplicated accounts on social media. We know the tell tale signs of knowing how they are fake, but why are we all still falling victim to them and fake websites? I don’t have an easy answer. I guess we are all just so used to using the web we…

  • Book Review: Progress by Nicole Higginbotham-Hogue

    This is the second book from this author that I have read. At first I thought this one was heading in a better direction. I was deceived. The plot is so convoluted it begins to get tiresome. The grammar and editorial errors throughout are no better that the first book I read. Half the time…

  • I Almost Got Rear Ended Today

    O Joy! today just proved to me why I don’t normally arrive to work on time. I usually show up closer to 9:30 than 9:00 and it is because I am either sitting in jammed traffic or about to be killed like today). In my rearview mirror I spotted a car barreling down on me…

  • Dashboard Cam Catches Idiot In Action

    The other day driving into work an idiot driver decided to exit on the right from the far left lane after speeding through a 45 mph zone. (wish I could send these videos to the police and let them send out a ticket to the guys….they do it when it is their traffic cams maybe…

  • Yelp.com Not as Good a Site as Everyone Tells Me It Is

    I finally got around to writing up several reviews for Yelp.com and while I was on the site I noticed my favorite comic shop, 1up collectibles, had a Yelp “deal”. $75 for $50 (I knew my next comic pick up would be more than that so I bought it thinking I would be saving myself…

  • Tis the Season….Scam Season That Is

    Got a text message today telling me I won a $1000 Target gift card. YAY (if it were real). First off I never entered a contest secondly I knew this had to be a scam. So first thing I did when I hit the office was Google the phone number it came from — 323-636-8891. First…

  • Think I Have Learned a Valuable Lesson

    OK, last night I spent all that time driving home playing with the Dragon Naturally Speaking App on my phone thinking it would help me get my ideas out of my head and onto “paper” so to speak. Well, all it did was teach me a very valuable lesson. DO NOT USE YOUR PHONE AT…

  • I Gots Ideas in My Head

    That’s right I gots ideas in my head and I want to get the out. Problem is they appear there while I am driving. And I always lose the idea / thought once I reach my destination. Sucks to be me. So I tried Dragon Dictation for my iPhone (see the last two days). I…

  • Dragon Dictation iPhone/iPad App

    Ok now I am really confused. I went to iTunes to leave a review and it told me I did not have the Dragon app on my phone. I just used it, or rather tried to use it, and could see it right there. So I removed it and reloaded it. It came back up…

  • Dictation Software for iPhone

    I just loaded Dragon Dictation on my iPhone. First of all, I thought Dragon was supposed to be the leader in speech to text technology, so why then does their app for the iPhone suck so bad? It would not pick up anything I said at first kept giving me an error message…try again. Again?…

  • Donations to the ARL and Other Stuff

    For the last couple of years Boris (that’s my cat) and I have been making donations and helping out our local animal shelters. When I make the donations I like to personal deliver them to the animals and take pictures of their little faces lighting up when they get a toy or a treat. Sometimes…