Of a particular moment in timeOnce upon a time, the image on a consumer TV screen came from one place and one place only: analog radio broadcasts over the air. TVs in…Oct 7Oct 7
WTFWhen I was a programming intern at the very start of my career, circa 1987, our tech writer had this sign above her workstation:Oct 7Oct 7
Trump’s weakness is his strengthEarly in the 1997 film The Fifth Element, the Earth is menaced by a flaming ball of space-evil. The space navy fires its biggest missiles…Sep 91Sep 91
Third term’s the charm!With both boys now away at college the time finally came to purge two decades’ worth of clutter that accumulated while childraising left us…Jul 9, 2023Jul 9, 2023
I have realized my DVD-streaming dreamsA little procrastination made it easier than I ever thought possibleJan 9, 2021Jan 9, 2021
Tenant isolation in hosted servicesThis article describes a new technique for achieving safety when hosting online services, with respect to customer-data security. It also…Jan 21, 2020Jan 21, 2020
All for nothing?See Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in 3D. When it begins, and the title and opening crawl recede into the the starry backdrop, the depth…Dec 20, 2019Dec 20, 2019
Something fishy in the cereal seasHere is a photo I took while grocery shopping recently: two identical boxes of Cap’n Crunch’s Peanut Butter Crunch. Or are they?Dec 18, 2019Dec 18, 2019
