I keep on forgetting to correct my use of terms. The substitution cipher in the last postings is really a one-way hash function. That is, yo...

Following up on yesterday's password generation posting, here is a Javascript generate passwords based on the last two names in the doma...

I want a password generator that I can remember. In most cases I will have my phone or computer that can be used to regenerate the password....

Well, we can't tell which of the eight chickens are sick. In fact, after reading far too much about the composition of chicken poop we a...

The Extreme Geek piece by Cory Doctorow on writing tools reminds me of Jim Coombs's tools. Writers using geek tools to aid the research...

The timing of local news cycles nicely supports some of what I wrote about in yesterday's Journalism and the new news organization'...

I agree with comments (other places) that much of the discussion about the demise of newspapers did not distinguish newspaper publishing and...

Just Landed: Processing, Twitter, MetaCarta & Hidden Data is brilliant example of social visualization from found data.

If you build a coop then you should expect chickens and be prepared. But, just like when H&O came, I feel totally unprepared. Having suc...

Every site that asks that you register and use a password should clearly declare whether the password is stored in plain text within their s...

My head these days is stuck in thinking about and working to achieve a more transparent government and so some of my actually interesting po...

The most used keyboard combination used during my day (besides the backspace!) is control-t, question-mark, "three significant terms...

Chris and I have discovered that we are late ordering chicks for our coop. McMurray Hatchery is mostly sold-out. Agway is still taking order...

Here is one of the two wooden baskets Henry and Owen made this weekend for Mother’s day. The baskets were inspired by a small book on weeken...

After writing Using directories as queues I realized I did not mention how you should check the queue. Using a cron job is usually adequate...

Software managed queues are great tools. Most enterprise system installations have some sort of message broker available. These are sophisti...

I am forming a study group to read and discuss the actual Rhode Island's state budget . Tom Sgouros, of the Rhode Island Policy Report...

Man, just when I was recovering from my Kindle 2 technical lust I now find myself lustful for the Kindle DX . At least I have until the sum...

Just found TweetChat and it is very useful Twitter tool. It allows you to focus on a single area of twittering conversation that it calls ...

While looking for the the Google container image to use in a previous posting I found that a Google image search for cross section cut away ...