Murphy’s Law
Okay, deep breath. I’m going to write about this because, well, it is funny, in a dark, ironic way. At least now that a few…
Dear Comcast
Dear Comcast, Tonight I called you to re-activate my cable boxes because one of them had stopped working and I wanted to use that TV…
Less Noise Is Good News
In preparation for moving to a new home I’ve been going through my stash of surplus motherboards, hard drives, etc., and getting them ready to…
The P in PC Stands for Personal
I’ve noticed a disturbing trend on the part of more and more companies selling software products, or hardware products like printers which require a software…
Almost 2,000 Days of Spam
That’s the period for which I have statistics on the spam and non-spam email that arrived at my mail server. Now that I’ve moved to…
End of an Era: Part 1
Sometime in the late 90s I decided to learn enough about Linux to wire my house to the internet and run my own email server.…