Category: Mix

October 2005 For no particular reason at all I just feel like mentioning how much I like, and have always…

Many people who read this blog are familiar with what I call passive learning — the phenomenon that causes one…

The way most of us take in daily news is horribly inefficient. The problem isn’t how fast we read, or…

Many grapple with the concept of authentication in information security. What tends to happen is that they confuse authentication with…

I’ve had what I think is a good definition for AGI for a while now, but ASI has been more…

You’d think certain things would come second nature to a major OS — things like network connection handling or returning…

I was looking for a bookmark of mine on delicious a moment ago and did so in a very primitive…

I was having some issues involving losing connectivity to a system of mine due to a dynamic IP. Normally one…

One of the coolest (yet little-known) features in Firefox is the ability to search virtually any website via your address…

I’ve always heard two things about IT consultants — 1. they make tons of money, and 2. they don’t know…

As we all know, tons of people are having their identities stolen — the most recent story involving over 600,000…

I’m suddenly re-pissed off about John Boyega’s character in Star Wars. But way worse than before because it’s all much…