words of advice for young people

One of my recent obsessions is information visualization. Working in IT, yes, I'm intimately familiar with the 'an ocean of water, ...

I have bitched and moaned here of late about the misfortunes and indignities I have suffered as a PC user and general user of Microsoft prod...

The subject of this story was born to be a teacher. He possesses all the essential character traits of a good teacher - he's extroverte...

The New York Giants' Super Bowl upset over the (until then, ha ha ha) undefeated New England Patriots had a lot of people saying WTF?!, ...

It's a generally accepted truism that 'reading to your child is a good thing'. It's up there with brushing your teeth, not ...

Lu Pi's rule is named after Lu Pi, who worked at the infamously corrupt Enron but cashed out before everything went to hell. At the tim...

I've been 'tweeting' over at twitter . Twitter's contribution to society is that posts are limited to 140 chars. Unfortuna...

No need to waste time reading the hundreds of Left Behind books, or even the Bible. The answers are all right here . I kid the Left Behin...

Every year, the end of October marks the beginning of Charlie Brown special season. Starting with1966's ' It's the Great Pumpk...

This is highly unorganized, as fits my current brain state. Has this ever happened to you? 'Brain Age' only for Nintendo DS. Trai...

I especially like how he rhymed 'djlfjlkjdslkjirt' with 'Run-DMC shirt' Still processing this one.

I have stolen these from a thread over at Doc Bushwell's : Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby . Atheism is a re...

Back in 2006, the world didn't know how to act when a firestorm erupted over some cartoons in a right-wing Danish newspaper . Currently...

I read Jimmy Corrigan, The Smartest Kid on Earth a couple years ago, having seen excerpts in various cities' alternative weeklies. It ...

I read blogs like Lifehacker and others of their ilk, chock full of their Hints from Heloise, Bottom Line Personal hints for the not-yet-el...

Open your Autobiography of Miles Davis (with Quincy Troupe) to p 380, please, for 'The Dinner at The White House with Ronald Reagan an...

This is a brief one: Patton Oswalt - Please license your 'I'm going to fill your hoo-ha with goof juice' routine to Gilbert Gott...

Here are some great books I found while wandering about on Amazon. They seem to be geared toward people without a lot of time for reading. ...

The Jaco Pastorius 2-CD comp 'Punk Jazz' had got to be the most misnamed album ever. Jaco was great and all, but this album is abou...

We have all been there: staying up 3 days in a row trying to force Websphere or BEA or ASP.NET or Python or PHP or Ruby-on-Rails to do what ...