For years, I created and maintained this entire Web site through a 56K (actually 40K) dial-up Internet connection.

Many times, I sat up for hours overnight, waiting for a few hundred edited pages to upload to my out-of-state Web server; or for an ISO image to download so that I could [more...]

We’re all used to getting our news from the Internet.

In fact, during the past decade, there’s been a huge shift toward trusting the Internet as a main news source, instead of watching TV news programs and reading newspapers.

The result has been the death of [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...]

As if the majority of computer users don’t have enough to worry about, now comes word that “A Russian software company today released a password cracking tool that instantly reveals cached passwords to Web sites in Microsoft Internet Explorer, mailbox and identity passwords in all versions of [more...]

When’s the last time you tried to predict anything — other than an extremely safe (50% chance of it coming true) prediction that some sports team will beat some other sports team in some sort of game?

As I’ve said many times before, prediction is a very tough business to be in, with thousands or more, known and unknown, [more...]