The twitterverse erupted today when a popular talk show host expressed his disdain at the prospect of Idris Elba, a black actor of modest following, was suggested as someday playing the iconic James Bond.

Furious, was the term applied to said host.

I won't say...

{I didn't author it, and don't know who did.  But I like it.}

Here's an easy game to play,
Here's an easy thing to say:

If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
And the address of the memory makes your mobi...

Texting is a form of the spoken word, not writing. If you look at it in terms of how it is used, etc. The spoken word is generally ephemeral, for communicating a thought quickly, often to a single recipient. "yes", "No", "Duck!", etc. It is perfectly fine (within reaso...

Wow! Another embarrassing "lost phone" story. I hate when this happens...
I have a little belt holster for my phone, with a magnetic flap. Yesterday a friend called me to come help him with a small task. I put the phone in it's holster (I was sure) clipped my reading g...

Today I lost my cell phone. My daughter had texted me while I was driving, and soon as I parked, I pulled out the phone, answered her, and then laid the phone on the truck seat, got out and worked on a project here for about 5 hours. Beautiful day! Wonderful to be out...

The magic, “Drop Dead” date when Microsoft is ending support for XP is nigh upon us. Maybe as you read this it has already passed. You are in a panic because your old reliable computer is still running XP and there are massive predictions of doom and gloom if you don't...

A simple guide to creating your own simple Perl modules.

In the early unix days, a popular Unix tool was called the “Swiss Army Knife” because of it's extreme flexibility and usefulness. Sometime later another well-known Unix person extended the metaphor to the Perl la...

Americans have lately become aware that sometimes their phone calls and web data might be looked at by spies and spooks in our government, and this has outraged many. In a companion article, “Wither Privacy?” I explained how monitoring of communications, not just by go...

The media has been atwitter of late with countless stories about how “they” are snooping on our private data. A recent story in the Guardian loudly proclaimed the “Death of the Internet as We Know It” since the big cloud services such as Google, Microsoft, Apple and mo...

We live in a data driven world. In his 1985 novel “The Cat who Walks Thru Walls”, Robert Heinlein describes his protagonists methodical hiding of his important business records in data chips which he stored in a cavity in his prosthetic leg. Such ideas were foreign to...