Facebook is kind of a like a big room with a bunch of theatrical stages, and each person has their own stage.  The things people post are kind of like them standing on their stage and announcing it to the rest of the room.  It's loud and on a stage, but not everyone notices because they're all on their own stages and there's a bunch of background noise.  Every now and then, someone announces something from their stage and it gets echoed around to other stages. 

Blogging is kind of like talking quietly to yourself while walking down a crowded street.  Most people don't even notice you're there, but every once in a while you'll get a passerby looking for information.  And shouting obscenities in your face. #technology

On the Media did a story about the inner workings of the internet's Domain Name System and the various security protocols involved in keeping the system running: 

So they have a key to a safety deposit box, which is inside the safe that they can't open, which is inside an insanely high secure facility, which they, hopefully, can't get into. So the person who knows the combination for the safe can't get in the room and can't get in the facility. The people who have the actual keys can't get anywhere, but the people who can get in the room don't know the combination or have the key. So, I mean, it does sound like something out of Oceans 11.

It's easily the most interesting thing I've heard about a really important thing that has almost no bearing on my day-to-day life. #technology

Apparently Facebook recently changed the way the news feed works.  The intention was to help companies better connect with customers or something like that.  But in effect, it's made it so that in order for a customer to receive Facebook updates about a company or group, they have to somehow interact with their posted content (e.g. Like, comment).  As a long time internet lurker and non-interactor, this puts me in the position of not hearing about the things which I've specifically gone out of my way to Like.  And if Like-ing doesn't get me a company or organization's updates, what's the point? #technology

A non-trivial percentage of my day is spent waiting for computers to do things.  And I'm not talking about complicated calculations or processor-intensive graphical simulations.  I'm talking about renaming a file, minimizing a window, or clicking a link.  Some days these simple tasks seem to take forever.  It's like my computer gets sidetracked and is like, "Oh hey, can you just wait a minute while I update some stuff and maintain your security?  Because that's my primary job.  Security over usability."  I have two computers at my desk at work.  One of them was thinking about something instead of performing a simple task, so I turned to the other computer, and it decided to act stupid and become unusable.  Thus, this post was born. #technology

I've been using Google Reader for about 5 years now, and I had been using their "shared items" feature not to actually share items, but to essentially save them.  If I came across something interesting or noteworthy in my RSS feeds, I'd "share" it, but since my shared items were kept private, they were essentially saved items.  Google pushed out an update to Reader recently to make things look nicer and integrate with their latest Facebook knock-off, and in doing so they got rid of the old shared items system.  They "conveniently" offered the opportunity to download old shared items in JSON format, which for all intents and purposes is completely useless to anyone who doesn't currently write software that utilizes JSON.  Needless to say, I disagree with Google's decision to do away with this feature, I'm annoyed by their attempt at softening the blow, and I have yet another reason why I hate depending on web technologies instead of writing my own software. #technology

A lot has been made about Apple's refusal to allow Flash on the iPhone (that link is from 2008, but nothing has changed).  Apple has its reasons, and they're legitimate:  It's buggy, looks crappy, kills battery life.  Android, on the other hand, allows Flash without a second thought.  And yes, it's buggy, looks crappy, and kills battery life.  As an Android user, I don't particularly care for Flash, but I'm thankful my phone has the option.  Because when it comes down to it, I'd rather have a phone that crappily displays the information I want when I want it, rather than a phone that idealistically doesn't display the information I want when I want it.  Flash on mobile is fairly bad, and I think Flash in general should be put out to pasture.  But in the meantime, just give me access to information. #technology

There's a very popular smartphone made by Samsung called the Galaxy S II, Epic 4G Touch.  That's not a joke.  How do you know when your product is poorly named?  When there's a comma in the middle. #technology

I keep seeing ads and new product announcements for add-on keyboards for tablet devices, and I can't help but think that a tablet with a keyboard is simply a laptop.  We already have those. #technology

Level 3, a company that installs and maintains fiber optic cables, says that "squirrel chews" account for 17% of the damage done to their cables, down from 28% the year before.  A company spokesman said, "I don't understand what the big attraction is or why they feel compelled to gnaw through cables."  I have an opinion:  Squirrels are jerks.  That is all.  (via Consumerist) #technology

One bad thing about how big the internet has gotten is that it's sometimes impossible to find things.  Not in an unorganized way, like you're trying to find something in the middle of a pile.  But in a language limitation kind of way.  For example, recently I was looking for pictures of mice.  I wanted the animal, not the computer peripheral.  For whatever reason, Google didn't want to show me the animal.  So I wasted a few minutes sifting through pictures of plastic white objects with buttons, before finally giving up and doing something else.  The problem isn't that the information doesn't exist, or that the algorithms used to find it are lacking.  It's that the English language isn't complex enough to handle what we're throwing at it.  It's like putting a CD on a record player. #technology