Beyond the Rhetoric

When I came to the Consumer Electronics Show last year, pretty much everything about the convention was new to me. It was my first real technology trade show, because I’ve only attended the smaller conferences in the past. The scale of this thing is absolutely mind-blowing. This time around, the Consumer Electronics Show isn’t quite [...]

What’s wrong with this statement? Children raised in homes with more appliances tend to perform better in school. Therefore, appliances improve intelligence. That sounds like a pretty outrageous claim, but you’d be surprised how many people fall into this logical fallacy on a daily basis. Just because two events or phenomena tend to happen together [...]

While Stephen and I had to slum it out at the Imperial Palace our first night, we quickly upgraded ourselves to one of the newest developments on the Las Vegas Strip. Encore at Wynn Las Vegas is a nearly identical tower to the Wynn Las Vegas. In fact, the two hotels share many of their [...]

Now that 2008 has come and gone, many business owners have started to pull their papers together in preparation of income tax season. Naturally, this is also the case for freelance writers like myself, because I still have to complete an income tax return just like anyone else. This true regardless of which freelance writing [...]

Since I am in Las Vegas for CES (the Consumer Electronics Show), I thought it would only be appropriate to dedicate this week’s edition of What’s Up Wednesdays to the world of geeks and their gadgets. From the BlackBerry to the iPhone, the Eee PC to the Flip Mino HD, a lot of us have [...]