Someone recently brought to my attention that I’ve offended/hurt someone by the (by now, months old) words on my blog. That is perfectly fine. I’m not here to be a politically correct person. This is my space on the Internet—and I’ll say what I like here. You know how I believe in freedom and its [...]

It boggles the mind what some people will actually do—to what ends they will go to try to “show up” someone or make themselves look better. What is even worse is when it is pure marketing bullshit. I am sure that there are people who do this in every single line of work. But what [...]

Recently on a mailing list of which I am a member, the following comment was posted: We pay cash at restaurants especially ones of certain nationalities. The context of this quote is a discussion on credit/debit card usage, and this statement came at the tail end of how care must be taken to ensure that [...]

So, as has already been reported elsewhere on the Internets, Comcast (of which I am a current customer) is going to assess a 250 GB limitation on transfer for its residential customers. This is more than a little disturbing, being that I signed up for unlimited use Internet. Disclaimer: The math in this post is [...]

I just read a (rather short) article on integer vs. UUID values as primary surrogate keys for a database system. Now, while it would probably be better to not use surrogate keys, there are many situations where they can be useful or even necessary. Often, they’re useful to the application for internal purposes, and sometimes [...]

Yet another proclamation from Redmond, telling Windows users to “restart regularly” and such. What? Microsoft: Does it not get tiring that you still haven’t fixed up Windows well enough that it still needs to be rebooted? Seriously. I have not rebooted my computers in a long time. And my systems are performing quite nicely, too. [...]

Several times in the past year, I have found that there is confusion over the units of measurement used in computing. There is one important thing to remember: SI prefixes predate computers by a long time. Using SI-prefixes to indicate power-of-two measurements is a depreciated usage of those terms, and continues to perpetuate confusion. As [...]