The Digital Firehose

I got a bill for $237 for services that were really unusable from Centurylink. You can read more about that, here . I guess they just want t...

"Americans are the most productive workers in the world", is a common refrain from elected leaders. Those words just make us feel ...

Hmm. How about that. The PeppermintOS project has a twitter account. That reminded me of the old days when I was shopping Linux distributio...

On Sunday, June 23rd, our daughter, Emily, suffered a silent injury where she lost almost all mobility in her left arm. We don't know ho...

I've always been very interested in gravity. I studied gravity on my own time in high school, having found a book called "The New G...

I've been writing since I was a kid. In school I wrote stories and reports by hand. Sometimes I wrote letters to relatives. As a kid, I ...

I didn't actually find money under the couch. But my experience at a bank one day was a lot like that. My wife and I needed to open a bu...

I'm late posting today because I was winded from yesterday. What did I do yesterday? I wrote a letter to Centurylink, explaining to them...

Mankind is rather unique in the animal and plant kingdom in one, somewhat startling respect: he doesn't recycle everything. Not even clo...

As the dust settles in the wake of the disclosure of the NSA's PRISM program, there has been a trend in the posts I see on Google+ and ...

I've been taking some time to review the posts at the Community Broadband Networks website. It is replete with a simple and common them...

Did you know that for years, biotech companies have been able to patent human genes? It has been estimated that more than a third of human g...

While it is true that Windows still dominates in the office space, there is a sea change afoot in job postings. Most are now calling for Lin...

Yesterday, I filed my first complaint to the FCC concerning the shoddy service I've received from CenturyLink . For more than a month, I...

Over the weekend, I managed to negotiate a faster internet connection for our home. I had been on Centurylink for the last month and it just...

Encryption . The government hates it because it provides real privacy for people who want it. But the government sees it as a threat. Person...

In a previous post , called "Reseller Nation", I demonstrated that an abused intellectual property system has created a thicket th...

Computers and other advanced technology have made nearly every industry more efficient and more cost effective, reducing costs for consumers...

From time to time, I check out pricing for laptops and computers so that I can plan for a replacement of my aging desktop. My computer is mo...

A couple of years ago, Oracle sued Google for copyright and patent infringement of it's Java virtual machine and programming language. ...