Author Archives: ivanmconsiglio

Unknown's avatar

About ivanmconsiglio

Read all about me: https://ivanmconsiglio.wordpress.com/about-ivanmconsiglio/

Microsoft says Windows-phone is outselling iPhone, . . . in fantasyland !!

Posted on January 7, 2014 by ivanmconsiglio

It’s dumb, but that’s just how low-on-the-totem Microsoft is when it comes to the smartphone market these days: the only places it can declare victory are areas in which Apple is concertedly not competing. Continue reading →

Posted in GEEKY OR TECHIE GADGET STUFF, GENERAL OBSERVATIONS & THOUGHTS | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

The Snooze Button

Posted on January 6, 2014 by ivanmconsiglio

Originally posted on A journal of my thoughts:
The Snooze Button was invented some time shortly after the invention of the alarm clock itself, and I remember the day I discovered it as a young boy. It was early in…

Posted in GEEKY OR TECHIE GADGET STUFF, GENERAL OBSERVATIONS & THOUGHTS, JOKES, HUMOUR, AND OTHER WIT | Leave a comment

5 New Year’s Resolutions That Might Actually Work

Posted on January 6, 2014 by ivanmconsiglio
Posted in GEEKY OR TECHIE GADGET STUFF, GENERAL OBSERVATIONS & THOUGHTS, JOKES, HUMOUR, AND OTHER WIT | Leave a comment

Great novels can change your life…and your brain

Posted on January 6, 2014 by ivanmconsiglio

Getting lost in a good book can actually change your brain, with neural paths forming in the same way as if you were actually living the experience, scientists have found. Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird … Continue reading →

Posted in GEEKY OR TECHIE GADGET STUFF, GENERAL OBSERVATIONS & THOUGHTS | Leave a comment

About the every expanding Chinese Supremacy

Posted on January 6, 2014 by ivanmconsiglio

originally published on June 8, 2013, by Michael Snyder, Guest Post This article, entitled “A Little Known Reality” though aimed at a US audience, gives a scary insight into China’s growing economic power. In future, China will employ millions of American … Continue reading →

Posted in GENERAL OBSERVATIONS & THOUGHTS | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

GIORGIO MORODER’S headline set at Electronic Beats Festival Vienna

Posted on January 4, 2014 by ivanmconsiglio

During 2013, the Italian producer and composer was brought out of semi-retirement for a Daft Punk collaboration, and since then a swell of interest in his work has led to Moroder taking up DJing. Watch edited highlights from disco legend … Continue reading →

Posted in GENERAL OBSERVATIONS & THOUGHTS | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

You know you’ve been in Italy too long when…

Posted on December 31, 2013 by ivanmconsiglio

You know you’ve been in Italy too long when… Continue reading →

Posted in GENERAL OBSERVATIONS & THOUGHTS, JOKES, HUMOUR, AND OTHER WIT | Tagged | Leave a comment

Snowden warns of loss of privacy

Posted on December 27, 2013 by ivanmconsiglio

In a two-minute video recorded in Moscow, where Former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has been granted temporary asylum, he spoke of concerns over surveillance and appeared to draw comparison with the dystopian tale 1984 which described a fictional state which operates widespread surveillance of … Continue reading →

Posted in GEEKY OR TECHIE GADGET STUFF, GENERAL OBSERVATIONS & THOUGHTS | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

CATCHING UP ON MY FAV TV-SERIES’ EPISODES: TBBT

Posted on December 26, 2013 by ivanmconsiglio

THE BIG BANG THEORY In the run up to Christmas Day, and right up to Boxing Day today, have found myself once again captivated by the wit and humour of the North american sit-com on CBS, THE BIG BANG THEORY. Am … Continue reading →

Posted in GENERAL OBSERVATIONS & THOUGHTS, JOKES, HUMOUR, AND OTHER WIT | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Five digital journalism predictions for 2014

Posted on December 23, 2013 by ivanmconsiglio

Digital storytelling is evolving as the device we’re telling the story on expands and evolves rapidly. Continue reading →

Posted in GEEKY OR TECHIE GADGET STUFF, GENERAL OBSERVATIONS & THOUGHTS | Tagged | Leave a comment