If you've spent any time on the internet—or better yet, in the world of quotable dead authors—you've probably come across this gem: “Everything in human life is really about sex, except sex. Sex is about power.” Brilliant, right? So brilliant,

If I try to trace my roots in Open Source, I'd probably have to go back to my early days in the mid to late 1970s and the time I spent playing with my Commodore PET, then TRS-80 Level II, as well as all those other computers that

What follows is a story about writing a song. A song about living life as a dog, which you know (at least in this part of the world) isn't terribly difficult or taxing. :-) You know what is hard? Writing music, especially when you don't know

Oh, the humanity...In a brilliantly orchestrated symphony of calamity, our world pirouettes on the brink like a drunken ballerina in a minefield. Climates change more often than a moody teenager's love interests, with Mother Earth cranking the thermo...

Over on yon Facebook, there was this list of eclipse watching tips floating about. Some of it was pretty funny and so I reshared the list. I've been trying to trace the origins of these tips to something other than the original poster (OP) but I'm

Some years back, my youngest son asked me about Easter. What it was all about? More importantly, what's with all the eggs? Luckily, as a parent, I was (and am) endowed with the power of complete universal knowledge and, naturally, explaining how East...

Before we get into the story, I need to set this up. A couple of days ago, I signed up for Perplexity.ai's Pro offering. In case you've never seen it, Perplexity is a kind of AI powered search engine. While it has access to AI

I don't often do reviews, but when I do, they're not usually in my blog, but they are very opinionated. You have been warned. Okay, so it's more personal observation than actual review, but there you have it. I promise to keep it short.

I've been reading a fascinating book, "God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning", written by Meghan O'Gieblyn. Technically, I've been listening to it on Audible. It's a fascinating book which covers, among its pag...

A long time ago and far away, a Captain in the British Army retired from service and moved to an estate near Ballinrobe in Ireland. His name was Charles and he moved into Lough Mask House, a property owned by a wealthy landowner by the name of Lord E...