I am writing on a local train from New Brunswick, New Jersey headed for Newark where I can take a light-rail subway and a bus to get home. I am using an Internet appliance. Uh, it is likely that this post will be remarkably brief. I hate typing with my thumbs, but I have already missed my deadline and, as I always say “The rules are your friends and anyone who offends your friends should be beaten senseless.”

I have been on the road with my freelance writing business for the past three days and, to be honest, I am getting a little too long in the tooth for this lifestyle. I qualify as a senior and get a good price on train tickets, but this running around the state makes me tired and I occasionally have one of those moments where I run into someone who says “Hello, Marc”, but I cannot recognize them. My strategy is to return their greeting warmly and hope that they will give me a hint of who the hell they are. Read the rest of this entry »

I am finding myself in an interesting position. I just got off the phone with a 21-year-old college student who called me to get advice on how to set up a cheap VOIP phone system she could use to send and receive calls over her dormitory network. This is not how it is supposed to be. I get this kind of thing all the time–kids asking ME how to use the new social media and technology. And then I get fellow aging boomers asking the same sort of questions–most of them are just interested in pictures of the grandkids at this point.

I guess that the premise of this blog may, in fact, be wrong–and that is not the kind of admission that you hear from a guy like me without using waterboarding. There may, indeed, be a digital divide between the old and the young, but, when you get right down to it, only a crazy few keep up with the leading edge. Read the rest of this entry »