death
Derek Miller, Cancer and The End Game
This is a guest post written by my Community Manager Kat. Derek was a friend of mine for about six years, and his loss leaves a large hole in my heart and within the Gnomedex community. On the morning of May 4th, 2011, I read fourteen words that stopped me in my tracks. Though I [...]
Why Should You Grow Up?
“I don’t wanna grow up, I’m a Toys “R” Us kid…” How many times have you sung this little ditty in response to someone mistaking you for an adult? I may be a tad closer to forty than thirty now, but I’ve often said that I refuse to grow up. I’ve come to learn this [...]
How Would You Spend Your Last Hour?
You have just been told that your life will end in sixty minutes. How do you spend that last hour? I can’t help but think about what it is that I would do if I knew I had only an hour left to live. Would I call everyone I love to say goodbye? Would I [...]
How to Share Your Life Online
Have you ever had someone tell you that you shouldn’t have posted something on your Twitter or Facebook account? Were you perplexed by their seeming inability to “get” whatever it was you were trying to say – and why? Community member Mitch Bartlett recently had this experience. He recently lost his Dad after a long [...]
Why Are Foxconn Employees Dying?
In just a few months’ time, there were nine suicide attempts, with seven confirmed deaths in Foxconn’s factory in Shenzhen, China. The Foxconn employees kept dying, and one reporter wanted to try to understand why. What 20-year-old Liu Zhi Yi learned shocked and saddened him, and is opening the eyes of the world to the [...]
How Much of Your Life is Online?
Earlier tonight, I posted here on my blog about what to do with your digital assets when you pass away. That’s quite thought-provoking, isn’t it? Think about it. I bet you have a Myspace or Facebook account. You probably have a Twitter account. I *hope* you have a Geeks account. You have email accounts. You [...]
How to Save Your Digital Assets When You Die
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Inevitably, we’re not going to be here at some point in time. Death comes to us all. In knowing our own mortality, we can enjoy life while we’re here. What happens to your online self when you pass on, though? I’ve [...]
Facing Death
Both Anita and Marc have left us… and it’s just now starting to sink in. TheMacinjosh is one friend who responded to something I posted to YouTube the other day: I just watched your video about your friends that recently passed away…and I can tell they obviously meant a lot to you, as they did [...]
I Worked with James Kim
I don’t have a lot of time right now, and there’s not much more I can add to the conversations already happening. Suffice it to say, I’m extremely saddened to hear the news of James Kim’s passing. I was one of the few who had the EXTREMELY distinct pleasure to work with James at TechTV [...]
