words of advice for young people

Yesterday on Twitter, @drewmckinney, aka the guy who wrote that cool DrivingBuddy iPhone app, wrote: Why be a tech professional in Bton inst...

...I've been removed from all the 'Obama iz a seekrit Muslim' mass e-mail lists of relatives and colleagues ...I don't have ...

Oraclown : clowns who use Oracle. Also, consultants from Oracle. I Googled this one, and I got a lot of results for a fish called an 'Or...

I recall reading one of those 'change or be killed' stories about a guy who got fired from his job (I believe it was a journalism ty...

I recently attended the Mitch Altman/Jimmie Rodgers soldering workshop at Bloominglabs here in town. Both Jimmie and Mitch brought kits to s...

Some people were arguing on Twitter as to the sucks vs. rules category Steely Dan belong to, and one of the debaters linked to this essay fr...

So says this guy . That is probably a good test of a person's aptitude toward software engineering. If you can somehow look past the cru...

At the beginning of the year I did a brief post about what seemed like good goals for 2010. This is something lots of people do. I am doing ...

I recently read ' Racing The Beam: The Atari Video Computer System '. The book introduces a new field: 'platform studies', w...

Reggae is not for everyone. Unfortunately, over the years it has become associated with dorm room stoners and the likes of Ras Trent of ...

The election of Barack Obama in 2008 has really led to an explosion in chain e-mails, one that might suggest the wise investor buy stocks in...

I have been wondering recently whether there is a lot of robotics research happening in the world of Creation Science. It seems like a reall...

It turns out the French phrase for thinking of something clever too late to use it is ' L’esprit de l’escalier or esprit d'escalier...

Back when I was cycling through all the music subcultures of the past 50 years and I was on the ska chapter (2-Tone ska, not the Don Drummon...

"Bragging that you're not a blogger is like bragging that you're slow and stupid and probably don't know how to use the Int...

Previously, I wrote about things I hope to do in 2010 . Now that Q1 of 2010 is over, let's see how I'm doing. 1) Get out of the I.T....

Lest anyone think age and recent health struggles have in any way attenuated Steve Jobs' famous reality distortion field, check out this...

I have gone on sometimes about the tedium and monotony of my life and job here. That's because this is a blog. Also, under all the gripi...

As a kid, my entry point into the Gumby world was via Eddie Murphy's portrayal of Gumby as an aging, bitter show business hack. I was to...

I haven't mentioned it explicitly, but I'm sure some readers have detected the influence of Bob Zany in my posts. You can find his w...