Ramblings of a Luddite Geek

Lately I've begun to think that maybe engineering is a bit boring. I know that sounds funny to most of you. It's like a member of ...

In one of the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" works, New York City is described as a place where it's best to answer ...

Technology has played a big role in streamlining the process of buying a house. But that's not what this article is about. It's no...

John Moran wrote about Google Print in his most recent column . So I decided to give it a try. First, I tried to search for an excerpt fr...

NPR 's report on the new bankruptcy legislation, which goes into effect in less than two hours, piqued my interest. First, is the timing...

This is right up my alley: ULTIMATE POCKET NOTEBOOK . Thank you Kathy Sierra for recommending it on your cool blog .

You scored as Severus Snape . Well you're a tricky one aren't you? Nobody quite has you figured out and you'd probably prefer i...

Click to jump to my LibaryThing catalog, which is up-to-date as of August 2008, or view the list below, which I've stopped maintaining ...

Let me take a break from road design issues and a write about some free fun things you can do on the Internet. There are many MMORPGs to cho...

Forgive me for obsessing over this, but I'm writing again about the Avon Mountain crash. This time I have an open response to Toni Gold...

Well, I lost my bet. But I'm glad. I'm referring to a comment I made in my previous post . I predicted that no one would blame the...

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...