words of advice for young people

Some time ago I wrote about overuse and abuse of the word 'passionate'. For a while on the show 'The Crocodile Hunter', Stev...

When I used to run religiously, which if you read my blog you know I used to do, anytime I met a new person in my neighborhood, they'd r...

It was only a matter of time before we managed to make the jump from glorifying stupidity to villifying education and the people responsible...

I'm a hacker type, and recently I've become interested in circuit bending, so I like to make a trip to the Goodwill or other thrift ...

I just finished reading ' Uncle Petros & Goldbach's Conjecture: A Novel of Mathematical Obsession ', written by Apostolos Do...

'I see the people happy, so can it happen for me? 'Cos when I have no energy, there's nothing that can move me' -Kate Bush, ...

Today I took my daughter to Target to go grocery shopping while my wife is in London and then Dublin for a week. We went because while we ca...

There's no point in running it into the ground anymore - my goals for 2010 have been covered and revisited. Overall, I did OK, but it wa...

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...