Several months ago, I started visiting Craigslist. In fact, if you search this site for the word “Craigslist”, you’ll see that I’ve made several excellent local deals through that site.

But one ad that has repeatedly shown up in my local Craigslist “Computers” section has always bothered me.

One individual keeps posting an ad to sell [more...]

As a technophile, I’m always interested in new technologies — whether they’re demonstrated in tiny, consumer-oriented gadgets or in huge, ecologically friendly infrastructures.

Here’s a new technology of the latter type that appears to have a lot of promise for the future: “A Louisville, Colorado, company says it has perfected a solar-energy technology capable of producing [more...]

You’ve seen examples of some of them in episodes of Seinfeld and other TV sitcoms.

On TV, they can be pretty funny to watch.

But dealing with them in real life is a whole different experience. [more...]

What comes to mind when you see the name, “Milli Vanilli?”

What do you think of when you read the phrase, “Florida State University?”

How about “Bill Gates?”

And “Thomas Edison?” [more...]

It’s been over 15 months since I confessed that my baby boy, Max, often ghost writes these Journal posts.

I was pleasantly surprised a few years ago, when he caught on to using Linux right away. And since then, he’s been very happy that [more...]