Ramblings of a Luddite Geek

The investigation into this morning's fatal crash in a Hartford suburb ( alternate link ) has only just started. But emergency person...

The media's soundbites on the Supreme Court's decision on MGM vs. Grokster would have you think that the movie industry "won....

The Geek Code is a succinct code that helps geeks identify themselves. In updating my geek code, I discovered that not much has changed si...

In Am I Lazy or What? I described code that I wrote to add one of four signatures to an email message. On Tuesday, I got tired of navigatin...

While I was desperately trying to find a way to avoid the heat on Sunday, Kathy Sierra was writing Featuritis vs. the Happy User Peak , a gr...

At 560 pages, Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything" is anything but short. That is, until you consider that i...

Sunday's Dilbert cartoon might strike a nerve in some engineers. But why? A good engineer is a lazy engineer. The computer was inven...

I didn't have high expectations for Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (HG2G) . When I finally saw it, I loved it immensely. It'...

Back in the good old days of DOS, upgrading to a larger hard drive was a breeze. All you had to do was this: Physically install the new dr...

Zaphod Beeblebrox DON'T PANIC You are perfect and nothing bad ever happens to you! You dirty, rotten liar. Your brain is obviousl...

I have a lot of ranting to catch up on. But I just read John Moran's FireFox recommendation , and I had to concur. We'll somehow m...

A funny thing happened when I went to the local library to look for "Better Off : Flipping the Switch on Technology," by Eric Bren...

My co-worker gave me this hat a few years ago. The hat is resting in front of my flat screen monitor at work, on top of a 120GB hard drive ...

Any computer that's connected to the Internet needs a firewall. It doesn't matter if you have only a dial-up connection. I'm o...

I didn't score as high as Tirsden , but that's probably because I don't have time to be a gamer.... The Deviant Geek You ans...

Securing your computer might be tedious, but it need not be expensive. In fact there are a number of excellent free security-related applic...

Yet another example of misuse of technology -- the Genetically Altered Scent project. Researchers discovered a way to modify the DNA of a co...

When I made the leap from MS-DOS to Windows NT in 1997, I continued using the DOS version of Norton Commander for a while. Norton Commander...

If I had to rank things in order of increasing slippery-ness, I'd put snow at number three, mud at number two, and ice at number one. Du...

Here's some brief, witty commentary on technology from Douglas Adams. These snippets can be found in The Salmon of Doubt , which I just...