So I've wanted to hike the Long Trail in Vermont since I was a kid. it is the oldest long distance hiking trail in the United States, spanning 272 miles from the southern Vermont border in Massachu...

I’ve been doing some interviewing for open positions at Microsoft… and one of the portions of any MS interview is usually a coding question to gauge the level of algorithm maturity of the candidate...

In my last post on fighting off a trojan horse virus, I mentioned that I decided to protect my newly installed OS by attempting a foray into the world of virtual machines.  My reasons for doing thi...

Last weekend, a virus got through all my defenses… ironic considering where I work (for a MS team that works on server security). My home PC was under siege for about 24hrs, after [someone] clicked...

IEEE - “Hands On” by: Amal Graafstra Such a cool thing to do… I think biometric/implantation ID systems hold lots of interesting possibilities of what we can control. A friend of mine is already t...

Piaggio ready to release 170 mpg hybrid two and three wheel scooters NO Way!! Very cool machine… kind of reminds me of an eco-friendlier puny version of the Chrysler Tomahawk! I like the idea tha...

Seth! You rock star! $100M for 4 years of work… damn, that’s sport-star green. This deal makes him the best-paid writer in TV. “I get a lot of pleasure out of making shows,” MacFarlane said. “It’s...

I was recently watching a documentary by Ric Burns on American Experience titled “Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film” (kind of self-referentially redundant title). Ansel Adams included a line from a ...

Transmissions from a satellite heart was one of my favorite songs by The Flaming Lips… (sounds painfully reminiscent of a herpes simplex outbreak). However, while listening to my favorite neo-liber...

First Baseball game in 25 years! Wow… They haven’t changed much since then… still hitting balls with bats. Kind of sounds like a good funniest home video clip—Bob Saget would make some pithy-yet-st...