Being someone who "works with computers," Family and friends quite often fling random personal hardware into my lap to "fix when you have some spare time." This is one of those spare times. I've seen the patient (a late model Dell Inspiron, well...

Brought to you by: #ASMW Uber Tracker I completely stumbled onto Alexa Ray Joel, and liked what I was hearing, before it started to dawn on me exactly *who* I was hearing. I have a feeling that this is the kind of thing she would prefer from new...

Brought to you by: ASMW Uber Tracker This week, I was listening to a band called Jets Overhead, who have a phychedelic, contemplative sound that combines current alt-rock with a strong nod toward the heavily folk-inspired seventies period of rock.

This year is the only time that VD will be coupled with the Unix epoch rolling to sequential number. Of course, the two are a few hours apart, but hey, any excuse to celebrate dorky geek trivia *and* being a more-or-less willing target for a...

It's just a pet peeve, but when I hear people in media verbally giving out links, they make a couple of mistakes. These mistakes bleed over into the habits of non-media people,and it's a really big mess after a few years. Number one is the...