Category Archives: Technology

Mon, 11 Jul 2011

Make It Count

By somegosoftly

Do you remember your first blog post? Here at somegosoftly I have archives and can find it real quick. It’s awkward.

What about your first myspace update?

First tweet?

First Facebook update?

Most of you might have said something less than memorable. Maybe, “I’m here!”

Or, “What is this all about?”

And now we’re getting Google+.

It’s yet ANOTHER chance for you to get out in the world of social media and say something.

There are tons of jokes in the other mediums suggesting people are already struggling with making that first step into the ocean of this new forum resonate.

So, what is it going to be? You get yet another chance to start fresh, create a space, have a voice.

How do you proceed?

While we aren’t exactly taking the first steps on the moon with this or anything, it is fun to know that you could be the beginning and success of something new, of finding a new way. I’m always jealous when I see the creative side of a new idea, and wish I’d thought of it first. I can’t wait to see what people come up with for Google+.

Leave a comment | posted in Technology, Writing

Mon, 17 Jan 2011

End Of Me

By somegosoftly

That Kindle is too cool. Plus the 400 some odd books on it so far. I was supposed to get a lot done today, but in between house stuff I already read a full book in a few hours! The best thing is how little it bothers my eyes! I’m already thinking of all of the things I’m not going to get done because of it. Not only that, I’m looking forward to my hair appointment. It’s got me thinking of other things that I won’t mind anymore, like waiting for the car to be serviced, for a doctor/dentist appointment, all those things I’d get bored waiting around doing if nothing fun was going on on the internet to look at on my phone.

I watched TV tonight for a minute with my laptop, Kindle, camcorder, camera and phone all on the couch by me, MK cracked up. So many fun toys! But it is hard to concentrate on making a video, sending a text, and reading a book!

1 comment   |  tags: | posted in Reading, Technology

Mon, 15 Nov 2010

Spelling And Typos

By somegosoftly

We all, from time to time, make mistakes. I have a sweet Momm and Dadd that will read my writing and let me know if I make a mistake. And husband. And brother. And Snippy. And anyone else I might ask for feedback. Here, Facebook, Twitter, Ski Utah. Doesn’t matter. It’s important to me that I express myself clearly and part of that is not being ignorant of something I may have overlooked.

MK has put it simply that he wouldn’t hire someone who couldn’t be counted on to be consistent and professional, and writing well is part of that, even if it’s not the main focus of that person’s job. He tells me as an advertiser he’d quit giving a site money if it made mistakes too often (thank goodness he’s not an advertiser here!).

Maybe not everyone has time for someone to help proofread their work. But it is starting to drive me totally crazy that so many people who have an online presence are simply terrible at spelling. Grammar and writing style are one thing. Sometimes I’m trying to convey something funny or snarky and write it a certain way that may not work for you. That’s allowed. I won’t pick on you for that. But if your ‘career’, no matter how serious, has you posting online, I think you should spell or have someone proofread your work.

Does it matter to you if you get a work email that is barely legible? Not a quick text from a friend written more to convey an idea than tell a story, but something that is supposed to be professional. I’ve been seeing some blogs, Facebook business pages, and Twitter accounts lately that have typos that hurt my brain. What would you do? I’m tempted to find the equivalent of the online ‘red pen’ and go around correcting people. But I’m betting it won’t make me many friends…

11 comments | posted in Blog Stuff, Technology, Twitter, Writing

Tue, 24 Aug 2010

Nervous About Weirdos

By somegosoftly

So, we are trying to sell our little hot tub that came with the house. We cleaned it, moved it, bought a new filter, power washed it, cleaned it again, and shocked it. It’s all cute and working. Almost makes me want to keep it. But that wasn’t the hard part for me. The hard part was posting it on craigslist.

I’ve heard a horror story or two from everyone I know. Their account gets hacked, or someone chops up their body in to little pieces…I mean, it’s just sketchy. So of course, fame name/unused email/carefully loading the browser/tough password are all things you can try to protect yourself with, but I’m still terrified.

I don’t want to get any answers. I want someone to wire me the money and then get the hot tub while I’m gone and have it not even be from my house so they don’t come back. I’ll have strong neighbors come by so that they will be intimidated by all the big beefy men and not try any funny stuff.

I don’t think I’ll be able to sleep until it’s over. And I delete my account. And give my laptop a detox bath.

Skeeeeezie.

Please reassure me this won’t happen to me!

5 comments | posted in Technology

Tue, 15 Jun 2010

My Yelp Fail

By somegosoftly

Or, “Need Yelp Help”.

One thing I love about the B’s is that they try anything and everything once. San Diego is so enormous that sometimes MK and I got in to a routine and didn’t often stray from it. So while we were there visiting and in need of some celebrating, we took to our fancy phones to find a place for lunch we’d all never been to before.

I tried Urbanspoon first, an app that is like casino slots, you give it a shake and it picks neighborhood, price, and cuisine, then suggests a restaurant. Our location was yielding too many chain restaurants, so MB suggested I try Yelp.

I was hesitant, I’ve never had a good experience with that site. Maybe I’m doing it wrong, you tell me. He suggested I type in “best margaritas”. The site did indeed pull up a bunch of Mexican restaurants, so we figured we were good. We picked one with great reviews, or many stars or whatever.

We get there, and the food was only okay, and there were no margaritas. They didn’t even sell them. What did I do wrong? Why did Yelp put this place in my results?

I mentioned once before the other problem I have - if you aren’t just telling me the restaurant was clean, and the service was good, how on earth can I relate to you? I clearly didn’t have the same taste buds as the people that loved the place, and voted NO margaritas as ‘best margaritas’.

I kep forgetting that not everyone has a smartphone (get with it already sheeple) but for those of you that do – is anyone experimenting with layar or any other augmented reality app?

2 comments | posted in Food, Technology

Mon, 16 Nov 2009

Review This

By somegosoftly

If you read this website and aren’t a chicken, answer my question in the comments:

How often do you look to the internet for reviews?

Whether it’s for restaurants, hairdressers, movies, skis or I don’t even know what else, how often do you read opinions?

MK doesn’t really makes decisions without this type of review. It’s how we got our new bed (post about that tomorrow). MK reads yelp like some people read the headlines. And he takes it all with ZERO grains of salt. Let me clarify my beef:

Back in the old days, sure, normal people might take the time to write up a thing. Probably only if they really really liked or hated it. Now, seriously, everyone has the internet. My GRANDPARENTS have the internet. Anyone can get on these sites and review stuff. MK trusts these strangers. I’m the polar opposite. If you are someone that has time to do a ton of reviews of random sites for random stuff, I totally wonder about you. I don’t trust you, I want you to get off the internet. Especially if you spell something wrong. I’ve also heard too many stories about restaurants posting good reviews of themselves. And if I don’t know you and your avatar is a lil pic of you and your twenty cats, I don’t care what you think about the salon/food/gym.

MK sits on the internet on his phone IN THE STORE. I’m cool with that if he finds something cheaper elsewhere. But not when he’s all “KK395lady said this will be the best couch we’ve ever owned”. Riiiight.

Sidenote: Don’t be mad at me if you yourself painstakingly take the time to write well thought out, non irate, well intended reviews. I know you’re out there, I just think sometimes these days you’re harder to find.

7 comments | posted in Links, Marriage, Shopping, Technology

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