On a huge piece of land that was formerly privately owned, a beautiful new county park/preserve recently opened right next to my neighborhood, with a pedestrian entrance that’s just several door away from our house.

The new park contains several winding walking paths, several lakes, ponds and wetlands, a children’s playground, a doggie park, several [more...]

In what I’m sure is going to turn out to be a very controversial move, “…CNN’s Anderson Cooper (has) reported that, from now on, there is a new rule in effect, which de facto bars photographers from coming within 65 feet of any deployed boom or response vessel around Deepwater Horizon… out on the water or on beaches.” [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...]

Regular readers of this Journal know that my wife and I have been married a very long time.

In fact, more than twice as long as either of us was alive before we met.

She is my angel, my joy — and very much my better half. [more...]

Years ago, whenever one of my college computer students asked me how many computer courses I’ve taken in my lifetime, I’d always tell them that I’ve only taken two: BASIC and FORTRAN (programming languages), back in 1982.

Then I’d add, “Most of what I know about computers, [more...]