Borepatch

Or maybe both. I guess that "both" would be in the Schrödinger Dept. of Physics.  Seen on Facebook , along with this: ...

OK, it's not google (work with me here) and it's no longer the KGB (it's the FSB, work with me here), but I've shifted to th...

Set the boot loader via front panel switches.  No school like the Old School, baby.

It happens to me sometimes.  And so to balance out my karmic debt, here's a cute kitten playing on an iPad: Need to amuse a kitten? ...

So let it be written : Through many dangers, toils and snares I have already come; 'Tis Grace that brought me safe thus far and Grac...

I've spent my career working on Internet related technology.  As not just someone trained in engineering but in history, I knew that the...

Actively Disengaged rules.

A bunch of folks emailed me about the CNN article on the Shodan search engine .  Shodan is cool, and I posted on it quite some time ago.  He...

Sitemeter's recent outage made me reconsider how much attention I was paying to traffic here.  On a lark, I decided to stop paying atten...

Moldbug (as is his wont) brings teh Smart : The dollar is already the global monetary standard - what creates any incentive to switch to ...

... that being a grown-up is a pain in the keister?

I've traveled a lot in my day, and was fortunate that most of it came when upgrades were still plentiful and First Class meant something...

Image via Wikipedia Jean-Baptiste Say was a notable French economist during the early years of the Industrial Revolution.  That revoluti...

Word : But there’s one other way to tell what a great woman Margaret Thatcher was. Take a look at the people who hate her. If there is an...

Steam engines (steamships, fixed engines, and steam trains) were staffed with stokers, men who shoveled coal fuel into the firebox.  Large s...

That's the tally so far.  Making progress, but dang I'm getting worn out.

Friend and former co worker (and gunny-biker dude) Burt emails to point out that Mighty God King , while no longer posting on, err, the M...

Image via Wikipedia Growing up, this was my favorite Beethoven, which meant my favorite classical music.  For some reason it makes me th...

Could have been worse .

In Germany, at least : Complaining about the weather has reached epidemic proportions in northern Germany this "spring." And wi...