Robotics, automaton, self-serve kiosks, and self-driving vehicles are replacing jobs. This process is irreversible. “Creative destruction” is a misleading buzz phrase used by those who will directly benefit from the destruction, the coming class of tech overlords. It implies that…

From the official website of House member Eric Swalwell (D-CA), with copious explanation of Trump-Russia ties. Swalwell is asking people to send what they know, in case he missed something. President Trump has also surrounded himself with people who do…

I convert dinosaur DOS apps to modern Windows platforms and agree with this article about why COBOL will never die. Yes, legacy code is often a garbled rat’s nest of code that needs to be tweaked. And yes, the underlying…

There are still a bazillion lines of COBOL code out there doing mission-critical jobs, like airline reservations, ATM transactions, finance and commerce in general, and state and federal government systems. COBOL is not going away anytime soon. Nor is it…

I’ve stuttered all my life. It used to be incapacitating. When I was in my early twenties a speech therapist told me in his thirty years helping stutterers, he’d had one client who stuttered worse than me. My stuttering lessened…

Thoughtful, intelligent examination of Trump / Russia ties from lawfareblog, which is associated with Brookings Institute. Yes, this is a rabbit hole. However it is incontrovertible that DNC was hacked by agents working for the Kremlin. The question is, where…

I was living in LA in the late 1980’s, heard about something online called BBS. This was before everyone was on the internet. A local alt paper published BBS phone numbers. I bought a modem, spend an hour trying to…