Upgrade Me: Our Amazing Journey to Human 2.0
Do you remember the classic TV show, MAN FROM ATLANTIS?
It featured an actor with webbed fingers and toes, able to swim deep into the ocean to solve crimes. Our recollection is that he had gills and could breath underwater like Aquaman, but there’s been a lot of alcohol in our system since then so we may be confusing two different characters.
But the webbed fingers and toes? Those were real.
66% of people surveyed said that they will respond to emails and text messages from work while on vacation.
Combine that with the 83% of diehard workaholics that say they check business email after-hours after they’ve left the office, and the 29% who still attend online meetings and/or conference calls while taking a day or two off, and what you have is a bunch of people who just can’t learn how to relax. Heck, Web Watch is guilty of this ourselves, having done everything from creating Powerpoint presentations while sitting in a Las Vegas casino hotel lobby to hosting a conference call while on the Mad Tea Party teacups at Walt Disney World.
We’re not proud of the latter, but one does what one has to do.
Not everybody can be “on” all the time; everyone is entitled to having some sort of downtime… and if your office can’t survive for an evening without your prying eyes micromanaging everything, then maybe you’re working for the wrong company.
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The other day, Web Watch was chatting with a friend when she said that she “often” does stuff.
But she didn’t say “off-en”, she said “off-ten”. In other words, she pronounced the “T” in “often”.
It’s understandable. It’s a common mistake. It’s certainly wrong, but she didn’t know. She always that that she was pronouncing it perfectly. Now she’s totally embarassed, wondering what else she had been saying that she has been pronouncing wrong all these years.
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Do you know how much bandwidth your cell phone provider gives you on your mobile phone contract?
We know – why does it matter how much our providers charge us for bandwidth? The Internet is free, right?
Yeah… not so much.
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Disney Princesses have inspired many fantasies, for girls and boys alike.
Girls, because they want to be just as glamorous, rich, desired… and more recently, smart and self-sufficient.
Web Watch has covered the Disney Princess phenomenon in the past, from both a business and a fantasy viewpoint (Briana Garcia and her Funny Disney Princesses being a popular page here on Web Watch).
So why do boys like the Disney Princesses? Because let’s face it — in the right circumstance, Disney Princesses can be hot. Heck, how can you explain why seven dwarves fought over Snow White?
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Thanks to everyone who took the time to visit Web Watch in 2011. For those of you who haven’t been able to visit every day, let’s take a look at what you did come and see while you were here:
The top ten most viewed Web Watch articles for 2011 were:
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Santa Responds: He’s Had Enough…and He’s Writing Back!
Have you written your letter to Santa yet?
Remember how much fun Napster was, back in the day?
Yeah, well Napster is officially gone now.
What about LimeWire? KaZaa? Yeah, you shouldn’t be using those either.
Nope, whether you agree with the legalities (or lack thereof) of those sites, none of the old fun “file sharing” apps and websites are valid anymore, thanks to the movie and music industry.
And the proliferation of $0.99 songs and apps on the iTunes store. That kinda helped a little bit.
Of course, you always have that peer-to-peer sharing via BitTorrent, which is a legitimate way to legally share giant files amongst people who need them. Unfortunately, a few bad apples had to go and ruin BitTorrent for everyone else too, by using BT as a way to throw around pirated movies and music.
