During my second interview for my current job, they asked me, “Why do you want to work here?”
I told them that I’ve spent my whole adult life helping other people improve their lives — and I’m really good at it. [more...]
Personally, I have no interest in “social networking” sites. My Web sites give me plenty of opportunity to express myelf, and I have enough in-person, over-the-phone, and email friends that I’m not looking for more.
But I can understand how a lot of people who either don’t know how to — or don’t [more...]
Is anyone protecting the security of the computer that controls your car?
As if we don’t already have enough to worry about, with online providers like Google and Facebook constantly finding new ways to [more...]
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...]