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 back on this topic again today.  I am going to take a look at a few different statements here in this post, and then I’m going to go over them and explain why these statements are or are not correct.  Should you wish to verify any of my information, you’re more than welcome to [...]

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 [...]

There are a variety of tools that are in the “computer person’s” toolbox—lots of them are niche tools that are great for certain types of situations. But sometimes, the tool doesn’t exist (or, it exists, but is so esoteric that maybe you cannot find it). What do you do then? In today’s strange situation, I [...]

Slashdot | Video Surveillance Tech Detects Abnormal Activity Yup, I did. It was Little Brother. Haven’t read it yet? Go, read it, I’m not kidding.