Kara & Michael’s Blog

Now, I know it’s not fair to call the customers in an electronics store stupid — after all, the majority of them are probably decent, upstanding human beings. But when high-tech and everyday necessity collide, there are often unfortunate results. The following are misusages and bizarre substitutions for a variety of computer-related terms, all of [...]

So some of you astute readers (ha ha! All three of you) may have noticed that this blog has been literally inundated with spam comments of late. For the last week or so, I’ve had to manually delete hundreds of crap comments advertising party poker and the like. The filters have caught most of them [...]

So I would just like to state, for the record, that I am very disappointed with this blog. So far I have written articles only when I am worked up about something, which in combination with my type-B personality has resulted in depressingly infrequent updates. So I hereby promise to write more often, and to [...]

Just a quick update…no sooner than a week after my previous post, which explained how to use a Best Buy in-store kiosk for general web surfing, the hole appears to have been closed. The logo on the Partsearch website is now no longer a link. I had no luck finding another way out of their [...]

Seems like everywhere you go, there’s internet access available. For example, Best Buy provides terminals throughout their stores (mostly in the computers department) from which you can access their website. They’ve thoughtfully made said website (or at least the version that the kiosks access) completely devoid of outside links, and the embedded IE browser used [...]