Birth of the Mobile Brats

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no-mobileDoes anyone else feel a little bit tech-spoiled? Now that I have a 3.5G phone (Nokia E71 and loving it) and an unlimited data plan, I’ve noticed that whenever I have to wait for something – anything – regardless of how long it may take – from less than 1 minute to 10 minutes, I automatically sit down, whip out my phone and fire up Opera Mini. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining. I’m unbelievably happy to have the internet at my fingertips anywhere and almost everywhere, subject to the infrastructure of my service provider.

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The Internet: A Woman’s Guide To Bitching

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The Internet: A Woman's Guide To BitchingWe all know that the internet was created by Al Gore as the world’s repository of porn and cute animal pictures, but I don’t think anybody saw the internet evolving into what it is today – a tech-wonderland where you can find anything, everything, and everyone. The applications of the internet seem to be endless as new technology continues to find new uses for it to be applied in everyday life, and yet I fear that many of the most applicable and powerful uses of the internet have yet to be fully exploited.

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Oh My God, There’s a Girl in Here!

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When Scott first tweeted that he was looking for a writer for TechMiso, it took me a few days to tell him that I was interested simply because I wasn’t sure if I was. Could I get myself back into the writing game? Did I have enough time between a full-time job and studying for a professional paper? Then I smacked myself in the face and told myself to stop whining. From then on, it took over a week of mulling over what I wanted to write about. It didn’t help that he basically gave me carte blanche to write about whatever I wanted. I bugged people on Twitter, on mIRC, over wine, and basically anywhere and everywhere IRL and online.

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