Over the last few weeks, I’ve gotten some likes and subscribers and I just wanted to say thanks for reading. I don’t know that I expected to have *any* audience, so it’s a pleasant surprise to be sure.
Keep reading and I’ll keep trying to entertain you by providing facts against idiot analysts. 
— TTT
http://content.govdelivery.com/bulletins/gd/MEGOV-787e40
“It is important that our students are using technology that they will see and use in the workplace,” said Governor Paul R. LePage. “This is the lowest-priced proposal, and the laptops use an operating system that is commonly used in the workplace in Maine. These laptops will provide students with the opportunity to enhance their learning and give them experience on the same technology and software they will see in their future careers.”
According to this guy, then, all Windows systems admins ages 35+ should be fired. After all, they grew up using Commodores, Atari, Amiga, Tandy, etc., thus they are useless on Windows boxes.
Fucking stupid.
Read the link above. Read it with a grain of salt. Read it knowing that he has taken many things out of context. Then, if you have time, read my previous blog, where another guy, Ian, takes Gewirtz to task, you know, with proof and links and things.
Finally, read this: http://thenextweb.com/apple/2013/04/25/apples-wwdc-conference-sells-out-in-minutes/
Apple’s developer conference sells out in a *record* two minutes. That’s two. 2. That suggests… no… it downright proves that Gewirtz was just MAKING STUFF UP to get people to read his article.
Considering his biography suggests he’s a “U.S. policy advisor,” I fear for our country who thinks they have someone with integrity…
I’m really pushing Ian Betteridge‘s article located here.
Ian Betteridge == good.
David Gewirtz == bad
Read the article and learn that, without an education or a desire to promote facts, you, too, can be as useless as Mr. Gewirtz. As long as you promote traffic and bring in advertising revenue, who cares about things like integrity?
According to Peter Ha, the iPhone 5 has “abysmal” battery life.
Looks like NBC News disagrees with you, Peter.
http://butyoureagirl.com/14015/forking-and-dongle-jokes-dont-belong-at-tech-conferences/
Oh, Adria. Where do we begin? Ok, let’s start with — I think it’s hilarious that you got fired over this. You wanted to pretend you were doing a service to all female kind, but you’re just a silly female with an inferiority complex that wanted to make a name for herself.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not suggesting that IT is a male only club, but I am suggesting that IT should include people with half a brain not to start some shit.
From now on, when a male does something stupid, I’ll call him stupid. When a female does something stupid, she “did an Adria” or she’s being an “Adria.”
Really, even if he made an insensitive joke about dongles, let it go. What I love about my work is that we can all be off color at work, both males and females, and don’t have to worry about any Adrias getting offended by a comment with no intent to actually harm.
In closing, to the tech world (and to quote Howard Stern’s father):
“Don’t be an Adria, you moron!”
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