LIVEdigitally

Generally speaking, technology is my friend, providing me gadgets with which to play and a website to keep in touch with friends, family and fans. All such things, however, leave a trace of where you have been.

A while back, my “comedy” website (in quotes, because some didn’t agree) conflicted with my much more staid, professional day job. The result, I moved on from that job and actually that state and part of the country.

Next week, I start a new job, and learning from the past, I will do everything I can to obscure my digital path. If I write on my weblog, it will be through a Gmail account. If I check my own site’s email, it will be through forwards to Gmail or my cell or Palm. I intend to never actually hit my site from their servers (and, in fact, have blocked their IP address).

I’m curious, though, what other strategies people might have out there to keep “Big Brother” unaware of their digital space. Any ideas?

Apple’s iPod is all over the news each and every day. The most popular music playing device on the planet gets more news media than the most popular person. Today is no different.

Apple claims the iPod battery life to last 10 hours. But at the end of the day all of us iPod owners feel like unsatisfied house wives when the iPod quits at a mere 4 hours. Less than half of the claimed amount is just not acceptable, and Apple feels that they need to correct this problem. That’s why they’re offering $50.00 to those who qualify. You do need a receipt, and you have to run a failure test (honor system is implied on this one) that proves your 1st, 2nd, or 3rd generation iPod battery is in fact a failure. Where the hell did I put that iPod recipt?

I was told that people are like computers. We have biological hard drives in our brain, we perform computations (sometimes we’re incorrect –ask my algebra teacher), and we can crash every now and then. The next logical step is to integrate human computers [brains] and traditional computers. British Telecom’s futurology department projects that in 2050, we’ll be doing just that. “Download your brain to a computer” is what they are projecting. I wonder if this is for a complete system restore, or more of a swap out of operating systems. Can you reformat a human brain? Better yet can you overclock one! I can just see those propeller beanies coming back into style but with a 90mm PC fan mounted on the top to dissipate extra heat.

They also noted that Playstation 3 is 1% as powerful as the human brain, and Playstation 5 will be as powerful as our brains. But then I’ve heard we only use 10% of our brains, did they factor that in? I don’t know how comfortable I am knowing my console video game player is more powerful than me.