Year: 2015

Like most people I leave my browsers download folder to the default “Downloads” on Windows 10. I have on occasion had an issue where I download something and then want to upload it somewhere else right away, but when I browse to my Downloads folder Windows Explorer does not show me the contents of the…

The President has declared October as Cybersecurity month.  It’s not a bad idea — just like you change the batteries in your smoke detectors once a year, maybe you should review your electronic vulbnerabilities? My top ten security tips: 1) Change your passwords.  You’ve had them too long, you use the same password in too…

The other day I was opening a packet of ketchup and on one side it said “open here.”  I said aloud “You’re not the boss of me!” and opened the packet from the other end, which worked just fine. It is not in me to submit to authority.  I will HAPPILY put my shoulder to…

Today is Juneteenth, and on the heels of a racially motivated massacre, we are forced to ask ourselves once again — when can we end this violence?  When shall we know peace with our brothers?  When will we achieve the dream that we all judge each other by the content of our character?  How can…

My friend Chuck Hobbs, a frequent and eloquent writer to places like The Hill posted a photo on facebook which included a naked breast to make a point.  Facebook responded by suspending his account and silencing an eloquent voice. In particular Mr Hobbs is a voice of reason regarding the state of race relations in our…

When something is free, it has no value and people treat it as such. When I worked at a great hospital in Boston, we used to offer free printing to everyone in our small division — 1000 people were generating printing costs of $100,000 per year.So we put a program in place so that when…

I attended the Massachusetts Libertarian Party state committee meeting last Saturday, and as always I left thinking:  “I know I’m being paranoid, but am I being paranoid enough?” To that end, I have generated a new 4096 bit public key.  Scroll down further for my 2048 key. If you want to know how to use…

Regarding deflate-gate Amounton’s Law says “The pressure of a gas of fixed mass and fixed volume is directly proportional to the gas’s absolute temperature.” So P/T = Constant For comparing the same substance under two different sets of conditions, the law can be written as: P1/T1 = P2/T2 I’m also going to do this in…