Regular readers of this Journal know that I’ve been using personal computers since 1979, and I’ve been using Linux full-time instead of Linux since July of 2006.

Having been a DOS and Windows power user and support person since the early days, I’m really grateful that [more...]

With everything that we’ve learned over the years about its never-ending list of serious security vulnerabilities, I find it really hard to believe that anyone would choose to run Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser any more.

Personally, I switched to Mozilla’s much-more-secure, free and open-source Firefox browser — first in Windows, and then in Linux — on the [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...]

Did you know that Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak of Apple fame used to make and sell electronic devices that allowed people to make free long-distance phone calls?

Did you know that Jobs once used one of those device to call [more...]

Regular readers of this Journal know that I’ve had mixed feelings about Google for a long time.

On the one hand, Google provides the world’s most popular search engine — and several online applications that millions of people use — all for free. [more...]

I’m a technophile.

I love to read about new technologies.

What they do. How they work. How they’re going to make [more...]

It used to be that having bugs in your computing system meant that there were mistakes in its programming — things that didn’t work correctly.

Years later, the computing vocabulary expanded to include worms, which use up networking [more...]

Its current lack of a few key features prevents it from seriously competing with Mozilla’s Firefox on my desktop, but lately, I”ve been seeing more forum posts and discussions about Google’s free and open-source Chrome browser.

So that made me curious to learn more about it. [more...]

It’s kind of a slow news day, so I went looking for something funny to share with you.

I eventually found a comic that I thought was amusing.

So I showed it to my wife. She [more...]

Every once in awhile, I see a ist of “geek skills” posted somewhere out on the web.

And I take a look at it, see that I know most of the things on the list, make a mental note of one or two things that I’d like to learn more about, and move on. [more...]