Ramblings of a Luddite Geek

With the purchase of the HP laptop a few weeks ago, the number of computers in our home exceeded the number of humans. I bought the new la...

The melamine that was found in tainted milk could be in the chocolate that's passed out this Halloween. Please watch this "Candy Pr...

Congress thinks we need a bailout. Wall Street definitely needs a bailout. What do you think? I'll tell you what I think. We don'...

Watch the Biden-Palin debate online. Then skip over to FactCheck.org to find out how accurate each candidate was . The first Obama-McCa...

Experts predict Spike in Fraudulent Activity Due to Banking Turmoil Woking, UK. 25th September 2008 An increase in fraudulent activity is li...

"Science Debate 2008 worked with ... leading organizations ... to craft the top 14 questions the [Presidential] candidates should answe...

I have an old computer that I'm wondering what to do with. It's a Pentium III, 500MHz, with 256MB RAM and a 10GB hard drive, with on...

Just a quick follow up to my previous post . I was a bit unfair in saying that the book advises you to deal with doldrums by changing career...

I finally got around to reading "Escape the Mid-Career Doldrums: What to do Next When You're Bored, Burned Out, Retired or Fired...

I've had the new window shades since November, but I didn't start to appreciate them until the warm weather arrived. The neat thing...

I just learned about LibraryThing from reading Sacha Chua's blog post, " Taking book notes ." LibraryThing is a social networ...

Airlines are struggling with the ever-increasing cost of fuel. They've started to charge passengers to check baggage. Let's think ...

In my area, gas prices have jumped beyond $4.00 per gallon over the last couple of weeks. I ranted before about how traffic lights contribu...

My pre-teen daughter already has a website and just started a blog. So I figured I should start learning more about MySpace. She's not...

April is Autism Awareness Month here in USA. Would you be able to recognize the symptoms of autism if you saw them? Probably not. The late...

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...