Free WiFi is Dangerous

I’m gonna cut to the chase, and since this is a blog read by primarily non-technical people,1 I’ll lay this whole thing out in a non-technical way: Using your laptop, phone, or iPad with free WiFi is dangerous as hell. I know, you love your free wifi. You love being able to post your whereabouts on Facebook, and constantly connect to your email. Trust me, I do to. But all this free wifi comes with a...

Google, Fold.it, & Cyberspace: You are a computer

This is something that should scare you. This is something that should thrill you. At the very least, this is something that should make you think. It should make you think about what you do and who you are. More importantly, it should make you think about what you are, because you are certainly not what you think you are. You see, to a great extent, you are what you do- and what you do is process information. You,...

John Metta: An Intentional Brand

I recently spend some money on something frivolous. Branding. I, John Metta, a person living in a small house in Hood River, have a logo. I actually worked with a graphic artist who specializes in branding to create “The John Metta Brand” Seriously. Yes. Yes, I know. The Branding of Mettadore The obvious question, and one I would’ve asked a couple years ago is this: Why should I brand myself?...

Surface Tension, Cat Spit, & Friends

Here’s a story. It’s apropos of nothing, but I’ve been too busy to write enough here, so I thought this would make people smile. I could go on and on about how it’s a story of Social Networking, and how sometimes the world is a better place because we’re closer, or at least more able to contact people for random bits of meaningless and make friends. It could be a story about how...

The Death Of Software & Media

Here’s an announcement, for all you geeky types out there: I’m finished posting geeky stuff like mathematics, programming and social media on Positively Glorious! and phasing out the Software & Media category here. I will henceforth only post those topics on Mettadore.com. Why? Because I have a large number of people who read Positively Glorious! because of my writings on topics non-geek topics, and...