A Peculiar Blog

I just saw this article on Time about something that’s got to be one of the flat out dumbest things I’ve heard about in quite a while. The practice of sending text messages while driving.

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I’ve been thinking about some changes to the look and function of the blog and tonight I’ve finally gotten around to actually doing some of it. I removed the big no-google graphic and the dead monitor donate button that [...]

According to an article on PC Pro, media giant Rupert Murdoch was provoked into an “angry outburst” over the fact that somehow, Facebook has managed to overtake MySpace.
Thing is, I’ve got accounts on both sites and I have to say that without doubt, Facebook is the slower, more aggravating site to use. And I’m [...]

Well, the economic news is continuing to slide and things aren’t looking good. According to the labor department, employers cut another 62,000 jobs in June, bringing the total to around 400,000 or so since January ‘08.
The cause? Well, lets just say that I think it’s reasonable to lay the blame for so many [...]

I recently wrote about a Ransomware attack called GPcode that encrypts files on the victim’s computer and then offers to sell them a decryption key to get them back.
According to Kaspersky Labs, When GPcode does it’s thing, it first creates a copy of the file it’s going to encrypt. Once that encryption is done, [...]

It’s possible to do a lot of blogging without the use of links but sooner or later you’re going to want to include a link to some page you want to share or that is somehow relevant to something that you are writing about. I’ll also grant that by and large I think that [...]