For the moment, this site is no longer seeing updates. I am moving away from Google tools and services for a long list of reasons, including...

An image series that I was really impressed by: A Very Boring Dystopia

A look at various free tools to visualize disk usage on your machine.  This is also a great introduction for data analysis / data visualiza...

An excellent look at how privacy violations can still happen from "anonymized" data dumps . If you have the ability to turn off tr...

This blog hasn't seen a lot of updates as I've been getting hit from all sides in the last few months but my one source of relaxatio...

Since I haven't read one good thing about using Facebook in what seems like a year now (increasingly disturbing privacy concerns, negati...

At first blush, it looks like another "double standards in politics article" but in my struggle to understand what's wrong wit...

Country Guitarist changes mind on gun control

In wake of the latest and so far worst mass shooting, some interesting notes about the NRA's lack of response and stats on gun ownershi...

In one of those moments that makes up a gaping chasm of a double-standard, a top official used a private email server .  Some really astonis...

I was surprised by the lack of information available for the very mature Oracle UPK software package.  I may dig into this more in the fu...

I really enjoyed this: a short, very clear article that made me feel a lot better about the world around me.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170607-why-printers-add-secret-tracking-dots I've always wondered about tracking dots - here's a r...

This is an old trick that I'm sure has been highlighted elsewhere at length, but to me felt like a new discovery.  There's a place o...