Ramblings of a Luddite Geek

There's a lot of talk about what to do about the economy. One group of economists believes that Federal Reserve Board Chair Ben Bernan...

Engineers Week was last week. One reason the organizers put effort into making and promoting Engineers Week is to get kids interested in en...

I was too tired to continue my previous post. So I'll add some comments here in a new post. I wrote: If the number of cars on the main ...

"'See, I can time them perfectly,' the [traffic] light said with satisfaction. 'I get hundreds of them each day. No one g...

The CareerBuilder section in our December 16, 2007 newspaper featured 16 career guidance books in its list of "this year's most in...

When an engineer picks a wedding date, chances are it has some numeric meaning. It's a fun challenge to come up with a sequence of numb...

Two years ago, I wrote about Servant Salamander . In that post, I described how Servant Salamander substituted nicely for Norton Commander ...

We call them Personal Computers. But why can't they be Personable ? The other day I was typing an e-mail. I thought I had on-the-fly s...

Do you leave your computer running and connected to the Internet? If so, why not donate its idle CPU cycles to scientific research? You co...

It finally clicked in me -- the True Meaning of Christmas. It was when I heard the Christmas story retold for the fourteenth consecutive tim...

As soon as I heard that Time Magazine 's Person of the Year (POTY) was "Me," I knew I had another sarcastic blog entry to wri...

Okay, I finally accept that my elementary-school-aged daughter can design her own web page and probably make it look a whole lot nicer than ...

When I was a kid, my favorite thing was to buy a new record from the music store and play it on my home stereo for the first time. Discover...

The website TryEngineering.org touts itself as a resource that should help pre-college students decide whether engineering is good career c...

It isn't easy being both a Luddite and a Geek. Each encounter with new technology evokes a Dr. Jeckyll / Mr. Hyde response. Sometimes ...

Today was not a good day, computer-wise. Thankfully, the problem was with my work computer and not my home computer, even though the two are...

What is it that spurs people to get a cell phone? In our case, it was separation anxiety. More precisely, it was my wife's concern ove...

Back in June of 2005, I bragged about how I spent a few hours to write Outlook VBA code that eliminates a few keystrokes. I had a request f...

I just read Sacha Chua's "On programming as a career" post and had to stop what I was doing and write about it. I understand ...

The US Senate is debating S 2917: Internet Freedom Preservation Act , which would prevent ISPs from giving preferential treatment to content...