“wikipedia” collection
April 23, 2015
Wikipedia Shut My User:HighTechDad Page Down. Fast.
How the editors at Wikipedia shut down the HighTechDad User:Page within a matter of hours.
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September 14, 2012
7 Unique Ways my Kids Use the iPhone
The Apple iPhone is a necessity in our household, at least my kids tell me it is. It seems that the iPhone is practically grafted to the hands of my children as they walk around the house. I almost think that they are going to grow another appendage for them to simply carry it and use their other two hands…
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May 10, 2007
What Web 2.0 would have looked like 10 years ago
Microsoft has been including IE7 in all of the latest Critical Updates. It's getting harder and harder to avoid installing. At my work, we recently had to roll back some of our users' machines to remove IE7 so that an automated testing software could run properly on IE6. So that got me thinking (and searching) and I found this great…
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Find your path through Wikipedia using Pathway
Okay Mac/Wikipedia users, this one is for you. Have you ever found yourself lost navigating through the incredible amount of links and cross links within Wikipedia? It's truly hard to use the back button to go back and forth throughout Wikipedia when your exploration is truly multi-layered. You need a breadcrumb trail and a way to link all of the…
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February 16, 2007
Our own “three wise monkeys”
The origins of the phrase "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" may not be truly known, the phrase, on the other hand is. Wikipedia has a small write-up of the expression and its various possible origins. On a trip to Lake Tahoe last year, my wife and I took the opportunity to have our own "monkeys" give…
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