Regular readers of this Journal know that I update it every single day of every year — for the past several years.

But only extremely perceptive regular readers — who also have punctuation fetishes — may have noticed that I use a lot of semicolons in my writing; I’d love to be able to use full colons, but they cost almost twice as much. [more...]

According to the organizations that track such things, approximately 95% of all email messages these days are spam.

Where does all that spam come from?

Well, we know that an awful lot of it comes from [more...]

Many years ago, I was a professional singer-songwriter-musician for 5 years. I wrote over 50 songs and my wife and I did 427 performances in 26 states, for audiences ranging from 9 people to over 3,000 people.

I played the 12-string guitar, which plays just like a 6-string guitar, except that instead of playing 6 individual strings, you play [more...]

I’ve discussed it several times, so regular readers of this Journal know that I’ve never had much good to say about “cloud computing.” In fact, I’ve always expressed serious concerns that computer users seem to be unwisely eager to trade their private data’s security, access, privacy and control for a little convenience.

And I’m even more strongly against the idea of [more...]

I love Italian food. I’ve always said that if you cut me, I bleed tomato sauce.

I love Italian food is because I love melted cheese. Specifically, melted mozzarella (or scamorza, if you have some). Whether it’s pizza, lasagna, cannelloni, mannecoti or baked ziti, Italian food usually contains plenty of melted mozzarella.

Low-fat mozzarella, for [more...]