Okay, let’s say that you’re rich.

Rich enough to be able to buy a penthouse apartment in Manhattan.

And you’ve found what looks like a perfect one to buy.

But you’re also geeky. [more...]

I’m using a 22-inch widescreen LCD monitor as I type this.

And you’re probably using an LCD monitor to read this.

That’s because, in the past several years, light, flat, energy-efficient LCD screens have gotten cheap enough to replace nearly everyone’s heavy, energy-guzzling CRT monitors. [more...]

As a technophile, I’m always interested in new technologies — whether they’re demonstrated in tiny, consumer-oriented gadgets or in huge, ecologically friendly infrastructures.

Here’s a new technology of the latter type that appears to have a lot of promise for the future: “A Louisville, Colorado, company says it has perfected a solar-energy technology capable of producing [more...]

Many years ago, I was a professional singer-songwriter-musician for 5 years. I wrote over 50 songs and my wife and I did 427 performances in 26 states, for audiences ranging from 9 people to over 3,000 people.

I played the 12-string guitar, which plays just like a 6-string guitar, except that instead of playing 6 individual strings, you play [more...]

Over the years, I’ve been very blessed to have had the opportunity to help a lot of people.

But, depending on my mood, sometimes I feel like my small contribution of good to the world has been really insignificant. [more...]

Many years ago, I read an article in Popular Science magazine that extolled the virtues of a new type of engine.

I don’t remember how it worked, but I was impressed enough to still remember that they said that the new type of engine was so powerful that one of them the size of a normal automobile engine would be strong enough to pull a [more...]

In the past, I’ve given you glimpses of my desk and my home office work area. It still looks very similar to those photos, except that I have only two computers instead of three, and I replaced the Brother laser printer that you see on the back-right corner of my desk with my HP LaserJet 4000 N, which sits on a shelf to the left of my desk.

As you can tell, [more...]

Regular readers of this Journal know that my wife and I used to live up north in the Frostbite State.

And we’ve been very happily living in the Sunshine State since Christmas Day, 2003.

Over the years, we’ve lived in many different towns and [more...]

As the end of another year draws nigh (Ha! I never thought I’d ever use that expression!) it’s time for Web sites all over the world to compile even more lists of information than they normally do.

Today, I found several good ones to share with you, so I decided to post them all in one Journal entry. [more...]

I’m always a little surprised and a little amused when it happens.

I publish a post that discusses an issue, then the very next day, I find a story that directly relates to what I discussed.

It just happened again. [more...]