The Meditative Coder

There have been quite a few times that I have wished for a quick and easy way to make random selections.  I mean in everyday situations, lik...

I think you have to be of a certain age to really appreciate MAD Magazine.  When I was a kid, it was one of the *FEW* outlets of satire, sar...

I have two religions. On the one hand, I am proudly Jewish, albeit a  secular Jew .  This is in spite of the fact that, as most of my frie...

A young pup of an engineer recently wrote to me: I was wondering (since I'm taking a coding class and I feel that one of my weakest po...

My daughter turned Margaret and me onto Maria Bamford.  She is a comedian who has suffered from some mental illness issues, and her sense of...

Tags are used to group posts.  If you want to see all of my postings related to, say, "death", just click on the "death"...

I created a page where I am basically talking to myself about the various ways that content can be published on the Internet, and which way(...

I have an  article about writing effective long emails. Those of you who know me are already rolling your eyes; I am well-known for writi...

The operation of multicast is standardized, well-defined, and well-understood. Or is it?   (Insert ominous music here) RFCs and other st...

LinkedIn Endorsements: you've probably received some.  Maybe you've given some.  I'm pretty much ignoring them. I've been ...

I don't know. At this point, it's for playing around and experimenting. I don't have the time or energy to post often enough t...