If nothing else good comes out of all of the recent controversial privacy breeches and vulnerabilities on social networking sites, I’m glad to see that they have at least spurred increased discussion of the related issues.

I think that’s a very good thing, because it seems to me that much of the “discussion” up until now has been mostly a one-sided, self-serving soliloquy from the social networking sites — sites that [more...]

Sometimes, it seems like, no matter how many times this type of thing happens, and no matter how egregious the events are, many people choose to either ignore them or downplay their significance.

Especially those who have either allowed or caused them to happen.

But something just happened that I think is incredibly important [more...]

Ah-ha! I can tell that you’ve visited this site before!

In fact, you’ve been here several times before.

Do you want me to tell you exactly what days and times you were here, and exactly which of this site’s links you clicked on, and exactly which of this site’s pages you visited? [more...]

Almost 6 years ago, I began using Firefox, Mozilla’s free and open source Web browser in Windows, instead of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

Since July of 2006, I’ve been using Linux full-time intead of Windows, but I kept using Firefox as my Web browser.

Needless to say, I’ve had a lot of experience [more...]

Overnight last night, this site had its 4-millionth visitor!

Thirteen years ago, I started this Web site.

Over the years, I’ve put thousands of hours and thousands of dollars into this labor of love. [more...]