Networking in Paradise...   In response to a reader's question: the network cable tester I have is the Fluke MS2-100 , pictured at rig...

Paradise ponders...   Yesterday I spent a good part of the day in small and dark places :)  Some of it was in the attic, crawling around t...

Paradise ponders...   This morning I built the seconds counter on my clock kit (photo of that section at right).  It all worked on the fir...

Suppose I told you ... that there was a group of armed people in the U.S. who have (so far) killed over 1,000 people this year.  Would that...

Charts in presentations...   This morning's Dilbert cartoon (below) triggered a memory of a conversation I once had with my company'...

Your morning smile...

Paradise postcards...   Just a couple of scenes from our yard this morning.  The first was taken looking west just before sunrise; the Wells...

Electronics and wildlife!   Down under transplant, reader, friend, and former colleague Simon M. noted that the latest xkcd cartoon comb...

Paradise ponders...   Another busy day today!  First we went to see Debbie's doctor.  She's been having some pain in her knee, makin...

Paradise problem puzzled!   Yesterday I posted about the clock kit I was building, and how the prescaler had a problem that needed to be tro...

Heh!

“Why has this not been done before?”   Neoneocon asks a most pertinent question about the French bombing of Raqqa, Syria: Why on earth wa...

A shocking development...   MIT scientists have come up with a novel method for cleaning up water , including getting rid of the salt in sal...

Intel 4004...   This was the very first microprocessor, and it has a special place in my memory.  Today is the 44th anniversary of its ann...

Paradise ponders...   Just finished assembling the prescaler on my clock kit (photo at right).  It doesn't work :)  That's not sur...

Edumacayshun...   Oh, my.  This feels distressingly on point...

Our doctor in San Diego retired earlier than he'd planned to ... and ObamaCare was a contributing factor.  Anecdotally we've heard ...

Our government's ineffectiveness isn't just a recent phenomenon...   One of the best examples I can think of to illustrate this is t...

Do it now!   Friend, reader, and former colleague Simon M. passes along some excellent advice.  However, I think his advice is just a wee bi...

Like a dead bug on a windshield...   A delightful essay on the strangeness of English.  A teaser: Old English had the crazy genders we wo...