I have never liked 1and1.com, but I had a good package deal from their early days and so continued to use them for small web sites and appli...

I would like to start a miniatures wargaming club in South Kingstown, RI. I am interested in many periods with battles or skirmishes fought ...

There has been a lot of criticism of Tim Cook's 60 Minutes comment that the US lacks the vocational skills to host the scale of manufac...

I wrote Suggestions on best practices for school web sites 6 years ago and it is still pertinent.

Grumble. Why do people spend so much time and energy on making documents or presentations look good when they are not competent to do so? Ju...

I spent a day upgrading my MacBook Pro from Mavericks, OS X 10.9, to El Capitan, OS X 10.11, and then downgrading it back to Mavericks. I ne...

A quick reminder to myself about bundling a Java tool into an OS X application. Directory structure JConsole.app JConsole.app/Contents...

Ender's Game + Surrogates + too near a possible future

My company had our year end lunch at The Melting Pot. While I did enjoy our lunch the long drive home had me thinking I had to cook my own ...

Here are my intended remarks to the South Kingstown School Committee yesterday (Dev 8). Due to the meeting running late I was not able to st...

I attended last night's School Committee meeting and it is clear that South Kingstown parents like the new Dual Language Instruction. If...

A fews days ago I posted a statement that gun type should be restricted and purposeful. Matt Caron has kindly give me (and y'all) a pri...

I don't object to the principle of owning a gun. I don't even think the right to gun ownership should be linked to 2nd amendment. In...

JSTORE Daily is a great source of short articles referencing scholarly work related to the news of the day. I highly recommend subscribing ...

I spoke with Terry Murphy of the South Kingstown's municipal Parks and Recreation department today for an update on the disc golf cours...

Oh to have been in the mind of the bash designer! Just when you think "Damn! This tool does not allow you to write to stdout." you...

I was making a 3' × 4' board for our Saga game next month and I wanted most of it to be dirt terrain. So I searched for what people ...

The following guidelines are for presenting a document for discussion. They seem obvious, but it seems they are not in common practice in pu...

It was good to see so many parents at last night's School Committee meeting. Most were there to address the changes to the home schoolin...

I really like the terminal for visualizations. There is something in its restrictions that gives it the right balance of detail for rough vi...