Autocorrect Run Amok

That's right. There's a website for that, for collecting the funny, stupid, silly, and weird things that autocorrect does. Peggy Robin wrote about the incident that happened to me, in which my daughter at college asked me if I could send her some chopsticks, when she actually meant to type chapsticks. (And the dutiful dad that I am, I sent Karen a package of chopsticks, figuring that they were for some college dinner or something.)

The website, Damn You Autocorrect is the world-wide repository for all of these valiant, though often flawed, attempts to turn us into better spellers.

It's great that to have autocorrect. But maybe it's better that autocorrect doesn't work right all the time.

How to Help Friends and Family With Their Computers

Cartoon by xkcd

If Only Tech Support Worked This Way

The way the world should work in the eyes of cartoonist (and computer user) Randall Munroe. Enjoy and laugh a little. I did.

You Won't Cancel Your Washington Post Subscription and Here's Why

Update: According to Buzzblog, Apple forced Newsday to remove this very funny and clever advertisement.  In this advertisement (which I'll describe, because it's becoming hard to find) the father at the morning breakfast table hears a fly buzzing. When the fly lands on the breakfast table, he swats it and the iPad's glass screen shatters. Buzzblog quotes one unnamed Apple source as saying, "Newsday got a cease and desist letter threatening all of our apps, if we did not remove the commercial immediately. They took exception to the fact that the (iPad) glass shattered into large jagged pieces." Sigh. Somebody at Apple has no sense of humor. There are still some copies of this ad floating around YouTube, and it's worth watching before the ad disappears entirely.