Overnight last night, this site had its 4-millionth visitor!

Thirteen years ago, I started this Web site.

Over the years, I’ve put thousands of hours and thousands of dollars into this labor of love. [more...]

Knowing that this Journal enjoys an international audience of between 4,000 and 6,000 visitors per day, I usually try to write as clearly as possible, without using idiomatic expressions that wouldn’t make sense in other cultures.

Of course, like every other rule, my rule is made to be broken. For example, I broke it just yesterday, when I [more...]

For the past couple of decades, Microsoft Office has completely dominated the market for office productivity suites.

And Microsoft has successfully used its near-monopoly power in that market to repeatedly foist new, [more...]

After getting my photos from last weekend’s charity fundraiser onto the charity’s Web site yesterday, I worked on publishing my videos of the band that played at that same event.

First I used WinFF in Debian Linux to [more...]

After analyzing about 40 different online gallery software packages, I finally narrowed my choices down to the 5 or 6 that I was willing to use and that I thought would probably meet my needs.

But having already spent several days on this task, I didn’t want to [more...]