Regular readers of this Journal know that air-popped popcorn is one of my favorite healthy snacks.

Along with being a healthier snack than oil- or microwave-cooked popcorn, air-popped popcorn has another advantage: You can’t accidentaly burn it, because the air-popper’s fan is constantly blowing every newly popped kernel out into a bowl, away from the heat.

On the other hand, microwave popcorn, while very convenient, [more...]

When’s the last time you visited a video store?

It’s been at least a year since I set foot in our local Blockbuster store.

I’ve probably rented a video from a Blockbuster-type store fewer than 30 times in my life. [more...]

We all know that we live in an era of astounding technological change.

Many of the technologies that we take for granted every day might have been considered miracles when our parents were young; completely unimaginable when our grandparents were young — and witchcraft when their grandparents were young.

For example, if it weren’t for [more...]

One of the main reasons that, around the year 2000, I started looking for an operating system that could replace Windows on my PCs — and I began using Linux full-time instead of Windows in 2006 — was that I was sick and tired of Windows’ swiss cheese-like security and the constant need to learn about and deal with all of its security vulnerabilities.

Now here we are, ten years after I started looking [more...]

If you’re a Windows user, you should be aware that “A quick search on Google and Yahoo! revealed that there are around 500,000 and 5,000,000 domains affected and serving malware, respectively”

Windows PCs are automatically infected by it — simply by visiting any one of the infected domains.

So where did the malware come from? [more...]