Our living room opens onto our patio through a sliding glass door, or at least it used to.  Our old door was an old-fashioned glass door ma...

The University of Virginia is currently dealing with it's own version of the economic crisis facing Greece.  On the one side, fiscal san...

These are industrial robots – by far the most common kind of robot, though many people have never seen one before.  They come in many variet...

Via my mom, a tweet from David Burge (aka Iowahawk ): Apparently, I'm supposed to be angrier about what Mitt Romney does with his mon...

Today is probably the big day: the day that the Supreme Court announces their ruling on the challenge to ObamaCare's constitutionality. ...

George Will on why we should not ratify the U.N.'s Law of the Sea treaty . What he said.

When you need a budget done quickly and effectively, just go to your nearest talk show host for assistance:

Via my lovely bride:

...then you've lost the whole thing on Fast and Furious...

...then other people are going to start speculating on what you're hiding.  Here's one smart guy came up with, quite plausible (if h...

This post at NYC Resistor , about EPROMs, set me off on a little trip down memory lane this morning... “EPROM” stands for Eraseable, Progr...

Oh, it's going to be an interesting election season!

...in St. Petersburg, Russia.  About 10 years ago, I stayed here on two separate business trips, visiting a software development subsidiar...

Anyone who has worked with executives of the MBA variety has almost certainly run into at least a few of the cliche-spouting ignoramus varie...

We had a bit of an unusual occurrence here today: SDG&E needed to replace a utility pole, and they did it with a helicopter.  The pole i...

This time from the lamestream leader (the New York Times), nicely caught and laid out by Mollie Hemingway ...

A strange twist on a subject I've blogged about before: the problem of hard radiation exposure on any manned space mission beyond the n...

Astronomers at the InfraRed Telescope Facility in Hawai'i captured this video of a small asteroid that passed quite close to the Earth ...