I bought a new microwave oven last night (we left my old one back in Texas ‘cause it was in pretty bad shape) and I just used it for the first time – popcorn is popping right now. And as amazing as...

I was just reading the list of enhancements coming to the iPad with iOS 4.2 and ran across this gem: See messages from all your accounts in a unified inbox. Why is this considered a feature or imp...

Starting with Leopard, NSTextView added support for rectangular selections and non-contiguous selections. Personally I’ve never used these features. However, they do get in my way. You make a rect...

The last few years have been pretty bad. Lots of health problems, and I haven’t been able to work much at all. Just a few consulting jobs to pay the rent and medical bills. But things are looking u...

Note: This post is from a text file on my hard drive that was created on 9/9/2002 at 9:16 am. I was asked to write it by the Orange County News, a weekly section of the Beaumont Enterprise. It’s h...

I’d been working on a similar draft for months, but I don’t think I could have put it any better: Guest Blogger: Romney’s Founders: by Geoffrey R. Stone, professor of law at the University of ...

There has been a lot of bitching about the iPhone lately: no SDK, bricking the phone with the 1.1.1 update, and the price drop to name a few. But in all of the instances I’ve read about, I’m 100% b...

Kayla wasn’t just a pet to me. She was a comfort to me when everything else seemed wrong. She knew my feelings and emotions. If I was stressed, she was, too. If I was down, she would come sit by me...

Cell phones have been around for a long time now (I’ve had one for over ten years), and they’ve always had really nice features like a call log (incoming and outgoing), custom ring tones, etc. So w...

I really can’t comprehend how someone can accidentally get in the express checkout lane with a full basket of groceries. And I really can’t understand why the store staff doesn’t say something. Wh...