Articles by John Watson:
Use of cloud storage has exploded in the last year. Almost every file hosting site we researched has multiplied their users either doubling or adding as much as millions of users to its base. This indicates that more and more people are utilizing online storage to host, share, and backup their files. There have also been some really great new niche additions into the... read more
Ok, so I'm not going to say that the Mars lander was a hoax. After all, I didn't work on the Mars project. Who am I to say whether something happened when I wasn't there? I wasn't here on Earth millions of years ago, so just like I can't say for sure that dinosaurs existed (or didn't), and I also can't tell you for sure that the Mars InSight is a hoax, since I am not... read more
It's that time of the year again, time to pull out your boxes of Christmas lights and Christmas decorations. Maybe you want to get a nice Christmas tree, too. Of course, you need lights for those too. Don't forget your banisters (if you have any), and some lights around those definitely increase the pleasant vibe of Christmas. Then there is your porch, and if you like to... read more
It's Thanksgiving in America, and a tradition is to say what you are thankful for as the family and extended family gathers around the dinner table and someone makes the first cut into the holiday turkey. It's a wonderful time and a wonderful meal, and the aroma of the thanksgiving meal hot out of the oven brings a warm feeling of joy and tranquility. But much of this... read more
Microsoft has been getting very annoyed that no one wants their extremely aggressive privacy-invading Windows 10. They desperately want to have as much open access to consumer private information as possible so they can continue to build their massive database of Big Data and have the ability to gain full control over millions of user's computers at will. In 2016... read more
Have you ever received an email asking to take an automated video interview or automated phone interview? Are you a company which uses this practice? This abomination is becoming more prevalent, but the damage it leaves in its wake is causing great harm to the hiring market and companies which use it. Here are the top 10 reasons you should ignore and immediately delete... read more
AOL Mail is no longer a safe place to use email or to use as an OpenID endpoint - and that includes past and old accounts you may have. While AOL mail lost the majority of new email signups when they began requiring a real phone number for all free email accounts, now they have begun permanently deleting all accounts which have not been active over the last 180 days. If... read more
Just a couple of decades ago, there were just a few online services that anyone could want. Today, the internet is proliferated with services on every single possible thing you can think of - and many that you would have never thought of. Some fail due to a poor sales strategy, but others succeed even though their actual product is useless or inferior. These services,... read more
Bethesda really really screwed up this time. While I've been a Fallout fan for over a decade, although to be fair Fallout 4 was less impressive than its predecessors, I wouldn't even play Fallout 76 if it were free. I'm serious, even if I could pirate the game - yeah, steal it - I still wouldn't play this retarded piece of junk. Of course, a pirated version couldn't... read more
Automated systems are the bane of our existence. In principle, automated telephone systems seem to make sense. The idea is that you want to make it easier to filter people into the correct department, especially for large companies, to reduce hold time and transfers. Contrary to what you may think, automated systems do not exist to save you time or energy nor do they... read more