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The 10 Best Summer Songs To Kick Off Memorial Day Weekend

by Charlie
May 23rd, 2013

With Memorial Day upon us, dorky pop culture blogs all over America will put their most-eager-beaver recent college grad to the task of pulling together a “ten greatest songs of the summer” ... Read More →

TECH

The Solution To All Your “Sending Large Files” Problems

by Charlie
May 20th, 2013

I received a call last week from a client (I do IT work for my “real” job) who was experiencing intermittent email issues and asked that I come by and take a ... Read More →

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Vocoders & Beats: A Track-by-Track Review of The New Daft Punk Album

by Charlie
May 16th, 2013

I probably hung onto my love of “electronica” a little too long. In the late-1990’s (the last time I was “cool”) I was on the bleeding edge of electronic music, wearing pants ... Read More →

TECH

Vaporware: Will Leap Motion or North Korea’s Ryugyong Hotel Ever Exist?

by Charlie
May 13th, 2013

Back in December, I wrote a piece for CTBoom.com about the Leap Motion sensor, a device that plugs into your computer that allows you to control it Minority Report-style, waving your arms ... Read More →

VIDEO

Space Oddity: Recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station

by Charlie
May 13th, 2013

source: YouTube/ChrisHadfield / photo: huffpost.com ... Read More →

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A Knee-Jerk Review of Vampire Weekend’s New Album “Modern Vampires of the City”

by Charlie
May 9th, 2013

In the following, knee-jerk review of Vampire Weekend’s new release Modern Vampires of the City, I will try not to use the following terms, names or phrases to describe the album*: world ... Read More →

CIVICS

School Safety: Are $25,000 Bullet-Proof Whiteboards The Answer?

by Charlie
May 6th, 2013

I don’t claim to have the answers to any of this stuff. If I did, I wouldn’t be drinking a beer in a chair at 10 minutes to 11 on a Sunday ... Read More →

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Smart Watches: Have Cell Phones Killed The Watch, or Just Made It Better?

by Charlie
May 2nd, 2013

A couple of years ago, I remember reading a few articles about the “demise of the watch”. People weren’t buying, nor wearing, watches anymore because their cell phones told them the time, held their ... Read More →

TECH

The Future Is (Google) Now

by Charlie
April 29th, 2013

Apple is notoriously snippy about who it lets into the App Store. Their “rule” is that an app cannot replicate a service already offered by Apple applications and that is the “rule” ... Read More →

TECH

A Guide To Keeping Track of All Your Devices in 2013

by Charlie
April 25th, 2013

I was in a coffee shop earlier today, waiting for my latte, when the girl behind the counter said “Is that your iPad?”. There was a lone iPad propped up on it’s ... Read More →

BOSTON BOMBINGS

“Does anyone know the status of the bag on Broadway?”

by Charlie
April 22nd, 2013

Right before I turned in Thursday night, someone posted a Tweet about “shots fired” on the M.I.T. campus. I said to myself “this is where it starts”, then went to bed. We ... Read More →

BOSTON BOMBINGS

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Is Anyone Else Sick of This Shit?

by Charlie
April 18th, 2013

I was on a plane about twenty minutes out from Logan when I glanced at the TV screen of the guy across the aisle. I had laser eye surgery, a modern miracle ... Read More →

TECH

Testing Out The Future of Wi-Fi: The Karma Social Hotspot

by Charlie
April 16th, 2013

This past weekend, I drove my family to the woods of Virginia, and left them there. Maybe they’ll come back, maybe they won’t. On the way, I tested out a new toy ... Read More →

TECH

Phone Phans: Keeping Up With Cell Phone Technology In 2013

by Charlie
April 11th, 2013

I had lunch with a tech-savvy friend the other day. At some point in the conversation he paused to deride my iPhone 4 stuffed into a giant battery-pack case. “You Apple fanboys ... Read More →

TECH

The Obsession With “Stupid Skype”

by Charlie
April 8th, 2013

Of my many income streams, the one that provides me the most cheddar is fixing people’s computers (I also teach photography courses, blog for CTBoom.com and smuggle illegal Japanese fighting koi into ... Read More →

CIVICS

Connecticut’s Historic Gun Bill: Can 138 Pages Fix Our Society?

by Charlie
April 4th, 2013

On Wednesday the third, in a vote that crossed party lines (well done, Sen. McLachlan) the Connecticut State Senate approved the 138 page gun bill (Bill No. 1160), passing it on to ... Read More →

TECH

Going Paperless: It’s Time To Kill The Printer For Good.

by Charlie
April 1st, 2013

My father hates cell phones. He carries one solely because my grandmother is in failing health. We have his number, but have been instructed to call it only if we “are on ... Read More →

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Christmas Gift Ideas From The Future: The Leap

by Charlie
December 24th, 2012

Pop Quiz regarding a movie that came out a decade ago: What was the key plot point of the futuristic Tom Cruise action/adventure vehicle Minority Report? If you answered “I saw it ... Read More →

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