Any geek who has any “cred” is a fan of Dilbert, the ubergeek.

In the early-to-mid-90s, when I was working as a computer consultant to a huge multinational corporation based in the Frostbite State, every one of my techie friends there — and every one of the computer hotline workers — had Dilbert comics pasted up all over the walls of their cubicles, with their favorite ones adorning the [more...]

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...]