I’m Breaking Up With You and I Want the World to Know!
This week, my son, who is 20, broke up with his girlfriend. Or she broke up with him. I’m not sure which it was, I just know she packed her things and moved out within a few hours. I heard…
My Take on the Apple vs. Adobe Kerfluffle
I’ve watched the all of the discussion about how Apple refuses to support, aka, pay for access to, Adobe products for their portable devices. First it was the iTouch, then the iPhone, now the iPad. They’ve either offered their own…
An Email From the Dead
It has been a bit of a rough year emotionally for me, as I’ve lost a few friends and loved ones in the last eight months or so. Last summer I lost a woman who was just a few years…
Happy Earth Day, Geeks!
It’s Earth Day, my fellow geeks. And while I love my technology, I love my home, too, and Earth Day should be reminder to act respectfully when it comes to our environment and what we are doing to it. It…
Making a Fortune From Junk
I was never a gamer, and not a hoarder, either, but both of those things just made Tanner Sandlin of Austin, Texas, a little bit richer. He sold his boxed (but used) cartridge of Air Raid for the Atari 2600…
Stock Up on Winter Coats
I think I’d better learn to knit and get a few sweaters and scarves under way. Just in case we step into a global cooling period, thanks to an Icelandic volcano with a hot temper. If you think it can’t…
Albert Gonzalez Gets 20 Years for Hacking, and Then Some
Just an update from my story of a few days ago. Hacker Albert Gonzalez got a sentence of 20 years on the first guilty plea, entered in Massachusetts, to unauthorized computer access. Two more cases (and guilty please) in New…