Lately, I’ve been spending some time on Craigslist, browsing all of the free stuff that people in my local area are giving away, and all of the computer stuff that they’re selling.

I find Craigslist to be much more convenient and secure than eBay, [more...]

If I didn’t write about this same video at some point in the past, I should have.

And if I did, it’s well worth linking to it again.

As a lifelong guitar player, I know that it’s easy to learn how to [more...]

As we worked together on a project a decade ago, one of my coworkers introduced me to the expression, “Perfect is the enemy of good enough.”

In other words, after you’ve spent considerable time, effort and resources to make your project “good enough,” [more...]

Anyone who bothers to look, has been able to see for quite awhile that modern society, commerce, governments, militaries and educational systems all heavily rely on the Internet.

Some say too heavily. [more...]

Regular readers of this Journal know that I’ve been happily using LInux instead of Windows since July of 2006. Linux is fast, secure, stable, easy to use, and infinitely configurable. Like most Linux “distros,” the Debian Linux that I use is completely free and comes with hundreds of free applications, tools, utilities, libraries, etc., as well as free access to [more...]