Category Archives: internet

What They’re Trying to Sell Me Now

internet, politics, Uncategorized 2009.07.11 Sean Shannon Leave a comment

Coming from the early days of the Internet Age, I’m used to basing my e-mail addresses and other contact information off of my real name (sean@…, sshannon@…, seanshannon@… and so on). Back when I first went to Antioch, my e-mail address, as was all students’ there, was based off of my real name, and I couldn’t request it be changed to firedancingspirit@… or something like that. When Dad was first able to access the Internet through his old CompuServe account, his address was based off…

Gaming Vicariously

internet, Uncategorized, videogames 2009.05.12 Sean Shannon 1 Comment

After getting my Wii last autumn, I played it a fair bit, especially after I got Wii Fit for it. (Like with my dance games, though, I really don’t think of Wii Fit as “playing a video game” because for me it’s exercise.) As much as I don’t like using my Gamecube controller to play Virtual Console games, there’s no denying that the downloadable games were one of the main selling points of the system to me. I’ve bought more than a handful of Virtual…

Digital Artifacts

computing, internet, Uncategorized 2009.04.28 Sean Shannon Leave a comment

One of the things that has made it easier for me to put off posting to the .org is the fact that hardly anyone else I know seems to post very often these days. I’ve subscribed to nearly every blog I follow in the Google Desktop Web Clips app for Google Desktop on the side of my desktop, and over the past year or so I can’t help but notice that so many blogs that were once updated two or three times a week are…

Our School Most Dear

internet, personal, toledo, Uncategorized 2009.02.03 Sean Shannon Leave a comment

I don’t really advertise the fact that I keep pages on MySpace and Facebook. Yes, I put the links on the sidebar of my Website, but I don’t talk about them that much because I don’t have a real interest in "recruiting" new "friends" on either site. The only real reason I have accounts on them is because some of the people I’ve met over the years have taken to them so much that messaging them on those Websites is often the only reliable way…

The Day the Music Stops

internet, music, Uncategorized 2009.01.30 Sean Shannon Leave a comment

One of my biggest worries as Yahoo! has continued to garner more and more bad press relating to their financial situation is that I would lose access to their services. I doubt that a situation would come up that would result in all of Yahoo!’s services simply ceasing to exist, but I do worry that their services would get folded into another, inferior service. (For example, I worry that, if Microsoft ever buys Yahoo!, Yahoo! Mail would be absorbed into Hotmail, which I find far…