In 40+ years of computing, there is bound to be software and tools that people are simply not aware of, or have forgotten about, or have moved from the forefront to behind the scenes—there are actually lots of these.  One of the reasons that I watch Freshmeat for software releases is to constantly look for things [...]

Yeah, alright.  Those are words I would never have thought I’d see in a title in a blog post, “thanks to Microsoft.”  But, it is true.  Microsoft is adding C# and the CLI to the list of technologies that it promises it will not sue for.  This is Microsoft’s “Community Promise”, which means that to [...]

I was going to post this last night, but I wanted some time to think about what I’d just finished reading before I decided to write about it here. Yesterday, I read Little Brother. It was an awesome, amazing read. It is also the only book that I have ever read entirely on my computer [...]

For whatever reason, I have stayed away from DVD-RAMs as useful disc types, and pretty much ignored them. However, I am coming to find that they are very useful and extremely flexible—and cheaper per gigabyte than USB flash drive storage, too. Now, the road to this discovery was actually fairly short, though it took a [...]