words of advice for young people

I thought people were pretty much over the 'gas is so expensive' gripes when it went back under $3, but apparently that's not th...

My wife, daughter, mother, father and I had wholesome family fun at the Murat Theatre in Indianapolis last Sunday, where we saw a production...

The recent woes of Tom Delay , Jack Abramoff , and Duke Cunningham remind us that in the U.S. we truly have a government of the people, by...

Though Americans are proud to be without a royal family or a tough-but-fair autocrat who took charge via a military coup running things arou...

CAPS LOCK shouldn't be as funny as he is. The all caps thing has been done before, both by clueless n00bs and people who know better m...

I've mentioned here before that as you move past 30 you tend to get a bit out of touch with the new music, what with not having so much ...

As I've mentioned previously in this space, part of the fun of having a blog is checking through the referrals in your logs to see what...

(invite a professor who teaches voice at one of the top music schools in the country. D'oh!)

This cornily alliteratively titled feature covers DVDs, CDs, and Comic books that I've recently viewed/read/listened to/otherwise ingest...

Apparently some people are worried about 'secular progressives' trying to further the ongoing oppression of the Christian people by ...

I have written briefly before about the 7 wheeled bicycle that is J2EE. Anyhow, people are looking for something, anything to replace Java ...

Web sites and magazines are always talking about the 10 best albums ever, or the worst album covers , and these articles always stir up argu...

I read about greasemonkey in Wired , and it sounded pretty cool. What it is is a plugin for the Mozilla browser (which is vastly superior t...

This was kind of a trick question. In this particular case, it was a corporate, private industry job, but there was a guy that slept on the ...

Each item below describes something I observed either while working for the Government or while working for an extremely large corporation. ...

The piece of crap computer I bought from Micro-X-press in Indy finally gave up trying to run XP. Or XP gave up. One of these. Apparently...

(cried inconsolably when the credits rolled, wanted the movie to keep going)

Resistance to the I-69 project has always been strong in Bloomington, IN, and supporters of the initiative are quick to dismiss Bloomington ...

At the risk of alienating my tens of readers further, here's another entry about obsolete technology. Computers, mainly. Legend has ...

I was on the front page of the local paper this morning, the Herald-Times . Here I am , with hundreds (actually thousands) of other Hoosier...