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...]

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...]

It’s been over 15 months since I confessed that my baby boy, Max, often ghost writes these Journal posts.

I was pleasantly surprised a few years ago, when he caught on to using Linux right away. And since then, he’s been very happy that [more...]

Regular readers of this Journal may remember my June-July, 2008 series of Journal entries, in which I described — in sometimes agonizing detail — the many trials and tribulations that I went through when I converted this Journal from being straight XHTML code to using the WordPress publishing platform, with my own theme that matches the rest of this site.

Anyone who’s ever done their own Web design knows that [more...]

An old staple of television sitcoms is a line that stand-up comedians use when they’re bombing and their audience is sitting silently, instead of laughing: “I know you’re out there — I can hear you breathing.”

The fact that this Web site gets an average of over 4,000 visits each day from more than 100 countries tells me that “you’re out there,” even though [more...]

Today’s Internet is filled with spam, phishing sites, malware and many other undesirable things.

I’ve seen it described as “the digital wild west” — referring to a time in U.S. history when criminals could do their dirty deeds with little danger of being caught or prosecuted by the law. [more...]

Coming just nine months after it received its 2-millionth visit, this Web site will have its 3-millionth visitor in a couple of hours.

As always, I’m astounded, honored and humbled by its popularity, and by the positive feedback that I receive from its visitors. [more...]

As the year — and the decade, depending on when you think it started — draws to a close, it seems like everybody’s churning out lists of what they think were the best and worst things of the year, decade, lifetime, etc.

Here are a couple of the latest ones: [more...]

Anyone who has posted a comment to one of my Journal posts knows that comments don’t appear until I have approved them.

But you may be surprised to learn that you never see the vast majority of comments that are posted to this Web site. [more...]

Regular readers of this Journal know that I’ve had mixed feelings about Google for a long time.

On the one hand, Google provides the world’s most popular search engine — and several online applications that millions of people use — all for free. [more...]