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Offline Data Mining and You
People are (rightly) concerned about who has access to their personal information theses days. But even when you avoid social networking sites altogether, data about you is still being collected. Every...
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Apple’s Evolutionary Newton Turns Twenty
When I started my doctoral studies in 1995, I had a great computer, but it wasn’t a laptop. I really wanted something simple that I could take with me to the library and take notes on journal articles....
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My Joy for the Week: Welcome Fresh Pressers!
I just wanted to take a quick sec to welcome all of you new visitors to Rewiring Virtue. My guess is that many of you happened across this blog at Freshly Pressed. Thanks for taking the time to jump...
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Things Are More Modern-er Than Before…It’s Computers!
After Apple’s most recent earnings call, the company’s stock fell and pundits began another round predictions about its immanent demise. In response to the hyperbole and Chicken Little-ism, Sloan...
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Hacking Your Machine, 1910 Style
I spend way less time these days tweaking and fixing my computer than I used to. Back in the early-90s, I spent hours each week messing around with on my Macs trying to find the optimal configuration...
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Coins to Tunes
As a six year old, one of my favorite things about visiting my grandparents in their small, southern Illinois town was the thrill of splitting the pile of change from my grandfather’s piggy bank with...
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Binge Watching Is Changing Us: Recognizing the Power of Imagination
It may not be one of the great novels of all time, but one of my favorite reading experiences was Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose. Genre wise, it is a historical-fiction whodunit set in a medieval...
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