I am having a very hard time settling down and anteing up for a space combat miniatures game. After a great deal of exploration and consider...

Listen to Wikipedia is wonderful and a good example of an ambient display. Reminds me of listening to the music of the stars in Carl Sagan...

A year or so ago I bought the d0x3d! board game. The theme is network security and the players are hackers cooperating to retrieve stolen i...

Anyone know of a laser cutting service in South Kingstown or vicinity? AS220 Labs has a low cost service (4 hours / $25), but I normally on...

Macintosh users once talked about the "Microsoft Tax." This was the additional hardware you needed to buy in order to effectively ...

Tom Hoffman's How bad are things (in schools)? posting (and the one it draws from ) is related to the complexity of childhood's pro...

The planning and execution of 9/11 took several years to complete. Oklahoma City took 2 years. These guys' plan seemed to be based on d...

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...