For the WWII gaming novice like myself Richard Clark of Too Fat Lardies is writing a serialized tactics tutorial "Talking Tactics....

In the US the wargaming press is limited to three general audience magazines. Perhaps there are more, but I am unaware of them. They are W...

In my posting Dimensions from photographs with perspective I noted that SketchUp is a tool that needs a trained user. Well, I stopped putti...

Cats are evil creatures that break Ps on the keyboards with their kneading. A big thank you to HP for all their helpful product repair suppo...

High School freshman year is a blizzard of handouts, worksheets, and single pages of notes. None of which are dated. None of which use any s...

I needed to calculate the dimensions of some historical buildings for which I only had photographs. A WAG is acceptable as I am only makin...

Over at Lead Doesn't Bleed , Mr Blanchette painted 3mm Napoleonic figures using 14 applications of color! Remember that 3mm is the dist...

I heard Maria Popova's Kindle highlights lament on Tim Ferris's podcast and thought I would try to solve some part of it. Below is ...

Does anyone else see the new OS X System Preferences icon as a trapped clown?

I am opposed to the $125M URI wants for a new engineering campus. It was only a few years ago that the university wanted to cease being a s...

A comment on Video: Why eBook Text Layout is Terrible : The problem stems from using visual design features that were designed and refined f...

Note to self ... For Mac Chrome users that don't want Chrome's print dialog box you can disable it from the command line using defau...

When I read headlines like "Building a Trading Platform in 6 Weeks in an Organization That Would Really Rather We Didn't" I th...

The Danes were victorious over the Normans this Wednesday. The Normans and Danes were slated for a final confrontation The Dane's war...

This posting is an experiment in documenting Java code using (in my case) illiterate programming . The Java source code is at The Observer P...

We use pair of HAProxy servers at work to route and balance all of our traffic. It is a highly reliable tool with little time or performance...

And how is this better than writing the inception and expiration dates on the container with a grease pencil?