For the past many years, I used Google’s Webmaster Tools to help me optimize my various Web sites for Google’s search engine, and help me administer Google’s spidering of my sites.

In that same time frame, I’ve also sent automated nightly sitemaps of my sites to Google, to ensure that it would be aware of each day’s updates.

Over the years, I’ve also used four different Google GMail accounts as anonymous proxies, to protect my online privacy when corresponding with possibly dubious strangers — being careful not to [more...]

Over the years, I’ve probably received tens of thousands of emailed spam messages — for awhile, I was getting more than 300 every day.

And thousands of pieces of snail-mailed spam, in the form of unwanted advertisements.

Along with hundreds of unwanted telephone sales calls.

But, over the years, I learned some tricks to reduce those unwanted contacts.

So, nowadays, I receive less than [more...]

Over the years, my wife and I have lived in a lot of different places.

In fact, we’ve lived in more than 30 different apartments, mobile homes and houses.

And that includes over 10 years in one house in the Frostbite State, and more than 8 years in our current home in the Sunshine State.

A few of our most memorable homes were a [more...]

We’ve all read horror stories of travelers’ dealings with the TSA.

Strip-searched little old ladies.

Frisked babies.

Sexually groped children.

Humiliated disabled people.

Attractive women singled out for [more...]

The U.S. Congress has been deliberating two new “Internet anti-piracy” bills.

Proponents say that the bills will protect intellectual property and enforce copyright laws.

But critics say that the U.S copyright law is broken, and the bills are overreaching efforts that would result in the end of free speech online.

Many major media providers have [more...]

Are there people in your life that you wish you could come back and haunt after you’re dead?

Or a secret love that you’re too embarrassed to declare in this life?

Is there anyone to whom you’d like to confess something, but not until after you’re gone?

Or a loved one to whom you’d like to [more...]

Doctors know a lot more about how our bodies work than we do.

And they know all about the latest options for treating debilitating diseases and conditions.

And they have access to all of the medicines, equipment and expertise that can prolong life.

Doctors have also seen a lot more people [more...]

The inventor was getting ready to start his demonstration.

He had bragged to his audience that his new, secure wireless communication system was going to revolutionize the industry.

As they watched intently, his device began to receive messages, just as he had said it would.

Unfortunately for him, he [more...]