I grew up reading tons and tons of books. Adventure, science fiction, mystery, horror, Winnie the Pooh, everything ever written by Beverly Cleary and much, much more.

My wife grew up reading, too, and still reads tons of books. She inhales them, one after another. When we moved from the Frostbite State to the Sunshine State five years ago, we [more...]

Regular readers of this Journal know that I don’t trust free online services with my important and/or confidential data. Instead of putting my data “in the cloud,” I use an email client, a spreadsheet, a word processor and other applications right here on my Linux desktop, and I backup all of my data every day to a separate hard drive.

Over the years, I’ve pointed you to [more...]

Back in Mr. Rurey’s high school “data processing” class, I learned how to wire the breadboards of my high school’s lone IBM punch card reader, to make it do magical things upon which my grade for that course was based, but of which I now have absolutely no memory.

But I do remember that any time you didn’t feel like listening to [more...]

It’s a slow news day in the land of IT, so here’s some funny stuff to cheer you up:

Everyone knows that, if you’re unemployed, you need to do many different things to try to find a new job. You might want to start by [more...]

A friend of mine is in the process of moving to Australia with her husband. During a recent visit there, someone made him a job offer that he couldn’t refuse, and there are plenty of job openings for people in her profession.

Wow! It was a lot of work for my wife and me and our four pets to [more...]