Topics on my particular interests.
A long time ago, I bought a license for the ZoneAlarm Pro software firewall. I don’t use it anymore (no reflection on ZoneAlarm, which was excellent the last time I used it, I just don’t see sufficient need for it any longer to justify installing it), but I still sometimes get e-mails from Zone Labs, …
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It is with a heavy heart that I read this article this morning, saying that the recently-revived Doctor Who series is once again headed for oblivion. As a teenager, I would stay up late one night a week to catch reruns of a full story (a variable number of episodes, totaling anywhere from 45 minutes …
Always have a backup plan. —Mila Kunis
This story caught my eye because using DNA for data storage — plant DNA, in that case — was part of one science fiction book I read (I believe it was I, Jedi, by Michael A. Stackpole, published in 1999). The concept is undeniably neat, and it made perfect sense in the context of the …
…Two OSes diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
I was recently told that my blog posts seem “rather cynical about clergy,” so I wanted to clear up any confusion. I am not an atheist, or against religion, and I don’t have any complaint about most clergymen; they serve important roles to many people in the world, and I respect them for that. However, …
In which our brave hero valiantly battles the forces of corrupted hard drives.
The Vista fever finally breaks after applying a cool Linux compress.
The continuing story of a Windows geek who’s gone to the penguins.
The third chapter in the epic struggles of a Windows geek forced by Vista to move to Linux.