I've created a Youtube channel to post videos of the kids for family and friends, but am struggling with the obvious issues that arise: the only way to do this that is in any way intelligible for most of my family is to leave it wide open and tie it in with Facebook. I very much do not want to do this with home videos of my babies ( Read more... )

I wonder how far I could get by sarcastically pushing all these aging technophobic Democrats into establishing an IEPA. The Internet Environmental Protection Agency would enforce Federal standards for 'net pollution, including fines for excessive twittering, worthless blog posts, spelling "more" as "moar", unnecessary use of the word "pooper" -- ( Read more... )

I still look strangely at bicycle helmets. I rode bikes for years as a kid and never knew they existed. Same with knee and elbow pads: it's biking not football! I rode in cars with neither crumple zones nor airbags, shared soda bottles with all my friends, sledded down iced-over alleys in residential neighborhoods, played ball in the street, and ( Read more... )

Why do winds only sweep, the sun only bakes, mud only cakes, rains only drench, and water only logs? Probably the same reason trash is only strewn, wars only tear, scandals only rock, and drugs only addle. I read whom I read just to escape cliché-laden articles.

Oops, there's a new one: "clichés only lade." Dammit.

The whole thing is still a little unnerving. I paused pulling into the Home Depot parking lot so a small family could cross in front of me. The little tween girl tagging behind looked the direction of my truck and stopped, got a little limp, and her jaw flopped open and back as she adopted a glazed expression. I assumed she was perhaps impaired ( Read more... )

Any intractable capacity planning problem is invariably ignored by architects so as to become an intractable engineering implementation and/or integration problem instead.

I'd write the Murphy's Law people were I not so certain that this had already been expressed more elegantly already.

My most bitter memories from my religious youth arose from the conflict in our faith between on the one hand being honest and on the other hand being good examples to others. Our excuse was the biblical passage about "avoiding even the appearance of evil" (I Thess. 5:22) to avoid causing someone to "stumble." (Romans 14:13 ( Read more... )

Many hackers erroneously think that they are engineers, and many engineers erroneously think that they are not hackers.

Left alone and uninformed, Americans will download and install virii on their computers, and only then learn the particulars of basic computer security. They will then appoint someone to manage that part of their lives and go back to being ignorant users ( Read more... )

This is such an insulting suffix -- and it's so right on the money ( Read more... )