


Slingbox is Slungbox: an Unsupported Tech Story
Do you remember Slingbox? For a while the service was all the rage, allowing subscribers to record and cast their television programming to a mobile device. If you wanted to keep up on local programming while on the road, Slingbox let you do it. If you were somewhere...
Green Great Dragons Can’t exist — Even in Managed File Transfer!
In a wonderfully astute observation, author Mark Forsythe points this out an intrinsic order to adjective usage in the English language in his book “The Elements of Eloquence.” Forsythe explains that English speakers tend to follow the hierarchy...
Do you want BAMF or BUMF?
I confess, I am a bit of an Anglophile. In addition to the rich history of Britain, I like British crime dramas, and often I pick up a bit of new language whilst watching. The other day, I encountered the colourful word “bumf” and thought it interesting,...
Why do all School Buses Look the Same? (TL;DR: Standardized = good)
While driving my daughter to school the other day I encountered sight common to just about everyone — a big yellow school bus. Whether you rode one to and from school every day, or if you get stuck behind one regularly while driving to work in the morning,...