It’s been proven over and over again.

Sports fans can’t do it.

Political pundits can’t do it.

Even television meteorologists with college degrees and [more...]

Regular readers of this Journal know that, in the past several months, I found several great deals on my local Craigslist, and they were all cash deals, done face-to-face, with sellers who live near me.

Years ago, I occassionally bought items on the eBay auction site, where I would bid on an item and then wait for the seller to ship it to me. I didn’t have any bad experiences with eBay, but I stopped using it after [more...]

It wasn’t the first time that he had done it.

Or the first time that he was caught.

In fact, this is the second time that he will be punished — with what is possibly the longest prison sentence ever handed down for such an offense: [more...]

oo-ee oo-ee ooooh — wa-wah-waa.

I’m sure that fans of classic films instantly recognized that as the opening notes of the theme song from the iconic 1967 Clint Eastwood spaghetti western.

Good luck trying to get it out of your head. It’s still in mine as I write this.

Anyway, here’s some good news about [more...]

Several weeks ago, I told you why you’ve never seen 14,456 of the comments that have been posted to my Journal in the past year or so.

Currently, the number of unseen comments is at 16,072.

Newly published research reveals, among other things, 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...]

Several months ago, I started visiting Craigslist. In fact, if you search this site for the word “Craigslist”, you’ll see that I’ve made several excellent local deals through that site.

But one ad that has repeatedly shown up in my local Craigslist “Computers” section has always bothered me.

One individual keeps posting an ad to sell [more...]

According to the organizations that track such things, approximately 95% of all email messages these days are spam.

Where does all that spam come from?

Well, we know that an awful lot of it comes from [more...]

I currently have 2 telephone numbers and several different email addresses.

My email client is configured to automatically check for new messages every five minutes.

And I’m willing to answer the phone at all hours — in fact, some of the [more...]

This is my Web site.

Over the years, I’ve posted a lot of personal stories about the struggles that I’ve been through and the lessons that I’ve learned.

But I’ve always done it “anonymously”: You won’t find my [more...]