In 1833, the Supreme Court took on one its more unusual cases: UNITED STATES v. GEORGE WILSON The case does…
Category: Politics and Public Policy
Always a dangerous subject, but everyone does has an opinion and, occasionally–insight.
From Slippery Slope to Avalance.. an Old Warning for a Modern Time (Genesis 6:1-6)
This picture was taken at a 2004 in a protest in Vancouver Canada against the Iraq war, and is truly…
Spare Computing During a Crisis.. Helping to Fight the Crisis
I recently discovered a distributed computing project for COVID-19 DNA research called Rosetta@Home ( https://foldforcovid.io/ ). Having 8 Raspberry Pis which…
Government… Indirect to You!
You may have noticed a wave of channels removed recently by Google for violating content policies, and the screams from…
“Pay No Attention To That Man Behind The Curtain”
That’s the famous line from the Wizard of Oz. The Wizard is putting on quite a show for Dorothy, The…
COVID-19: An simple exercise in evaluating information
I recently read this article discussing a possible cover-up in the number of deaths from COVID-19 in the town where…
Think Twice Before Escalating Anything
A few weeks ago, I read the new reports based on tweets made during the diversion of a flight, on…
Unexpectedly Joining the Distributed Workforce
After an unusual set of circumstances, my company has shifted its IT and software development staff into a distributed workforce…
Real Password Security, Using the KISS Principle
Keep It Simple and Stupid! If you hate those extremely over-complicated password requirements which paranoid corporations are embracing, you will…
Paper currency… its final countdown has begun
You might think I am writing about Cryptocurrency… but that would miss a much bigger picture. Back in 1999, as…