One of the things I’ve wanted to do for a while is learn to play chess. I’ve started playing against Scott, my brother-in-law, at Sound Chess. It’s a chess-by-email website that I can’t recommend enough. (You actually play on the website, and it sends an email to your opponent that it’s their turn to move. [...]
Today, I made the leap. I deleted my Facebook account. Of course, I didn’t really delete it. I requested that they delete it, and, in fourteen days, they say they will. I’m not sure why they have to wait so long, but I’m glad to be out. Now I just wonder what I’ll do for [...]
Have you heard of StumbleUpon? It’s a browser add-on for Firefox (and maybe more) that leads you to new websites that it thinks you’ll be interested in. Learning from how you react (thumbs up, thumbs down) to the websites it shows you, it learns what interests you and what doesn’t. It’s so addictive that I [...]