The culprit might be your anti-virus software

Having used PCs since the early days of the Intel 8088-based personal computer, I'm always baffled by the amount of instability in today's computer systems. I build my own computer systems and one … [Continue reading]

Sedo and Name.com: Who’s telling porkies about parking?

A few days ago I let one of my domains - Greek.in - cross its expiration date. The domain is with Name.com and I simply "ignored" the reminders on a busy week. While in the process of renewing … [Continue reading]

Farewell, my friend

These days it's hard to allocate the term "friend" to people that we only interact with online. When I was growing up, friends were the kids that we shared games of soccer, hide and seek, or board … [Continue reading]

Naughty John Naughton and Thank God for graphic designers

I still remember the early days of the commercial Internet, having graduated from college a good five years earlier. These days, information technology was restricted to local programming and games … [Continue reading]

I’m getting too old for this: The letter captcha rant

There are probably several billion reasons to use a captcha on a form; as many as the amount of spam one is in danger of receiving. The "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers … [Continue reading]