One of the benefits of living in Kansas City is the availability of Google Fiber as my high-speed internet provider.…
Category: Technology.Thoughts
My thoughts on things happening in the development world, and technology in general
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it… especially when it has no aesthetic value.
There has been a very aggravating trend lately with banking sites. More and more banks are finally joining the rest…
Keeping your web site or web application current with the times, and … reasonable.
<rant> The web has been around now for over two decades. Whether it was a practice used during the internet’s early “wild-west” period,…
Technology is so SaaS-y, it’s not modeling the real world
“The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think…
Some tips when tracking your finances online
As a lot of people have done or are doing, I moved my finance tracking off the old (read: previously)…
Diffusing the patent trolls
The ABA Journal recently published an article dated Feb 1, 2015 (ironic, since today is January 28, 2015) which discusses…
Big Brother at its best? Well, maybe…
Recently, it was revealed that the NSA is able to break common encryption protocols used on the internet. You can…
User beware: the hidden gotchas of the Verizon FIOS service
Verizon FIOS is a fiber-optic system capable of delivering very fast internet feeds to residential consumers, in addition to its…
DD-WRT: Making two-routers work on the same network… and an alternate
I recently moved and had to setup a new home network. Because of the length and number of walls limiting…
Of Patents and Trolls…
Isaac Asimov, the famous science-fiction writer, died not long ago. In the obituary I read about him, there was one…