The Digital Firehose

I've taken a few college classes and I must admit, that what I enjoyed most about college is writing the essays. I loved the research, t...

Conventional wisdom tells us that capitalism is by far the best economic system for allocation of resources to consumers. The storied histor...

The economic debate is now clearly abuzz with the publication of Thomas Picketty's book, Capital in the 21st Century . Capital in the 21...

Carl Sagan is famously quoted as follows, "Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception." This is the law in every ecosystem ...

Sometimes, when we vote, we have to choose between what turns our conscience and what turns our stomachs. We may find ourselves facing two c...

For a few years now, we have seen concerted efforts by the GOP to deal with what they claim to be a voter fraud problem. Never mind that alm...

So, the Supreme Court still thinks that money is speech? I see that the Roberts Court has not only repeated this tired idea, but they have ...

Could we be living in an oligarchy? An oligarchy is a society where only the super rich have any influence on public policy. Worried about t...

I have a voice in my head. It talks and makes observations. It has suggestions. It can be angry, happy, sad, and it is the voice I hear in m...

The tech world is abuzz with word of the Heartbleed bug, a bug that makes OpenSSL, the software that makes your shopping safer with Amazon, ...

I know, it's a couple years late. I've been really busy, so getting a movie in here and there is hard. Fortunately, I figured out ho...

Last weekend, my wife and I had lunch at the Cheesecake Factory, courtesy of a gift card we received sometime ago. I must say, it was a fant...

I finally got one. After weeks of patient and quiet negotiation with my wife, Alice, I got a Chromecast. My wife was worried that, like the ...

I'm a funny guy. I know this because I have empirical evidence that shows that what I say makes people laugh. I don't know exactly w...

I used to work in a retirement home, but I didn't take care of the old people. I worked on the network that supported the business of ca...

I note with interest how the host and producers of the new television series Cosmos: A Space Odyssey, have been besieged with requests to gi...

In 2001, I took a UNIX class at Orange Coast College. I really enjoyed the class, having learned bash programming in the class, but nothing ...

I had a problem at work. I was working through a list of directions for clearing space on a server so that the server could be made ready fo...

For those of you who miss my blog, I'm still here. I'm just working a lot. I'm sure it's only temporary, but it's taken ...

Do you hate someone? Have you ever really hated someone? How well did you know that person before you decided you hated him or her? Yester...