Have you ever tried to explain BitTorrent to someone who has no clue about P2P? It’s challenging, isn’t it? Things that most of us take for granted really make no sense to users that aren’t all that tech-savvy. Don’t believe me? Just go to a site like Yahoo Answers - and be a...

Oh, and speaking of punk being dead , check out the brand spankin' new "virtual tour" of late, lamented CBGB . As mawkishly gimmicky as it is, I have to say that it's fairly well done.  I've swiped this, by the way, from the excellent This Ain't the Summer of Love blo...

As a person with Type 1 diabetes, whose life is all wrapped up in helping others with this incurable illness, it’s hard to express the relief and yes — joy — that I feel knowing that researchers hands will finally be untied by Obama today to freely explore the enormous possibilities of stem ce...

Wow, and I thought picking winners for our Holiday Sweepstakes diabetes wisdom contest was difficult!  But for the NEW YEAR, NEW YOU Diabetes Makeover competition, what we ended up judging were people’s life stories — their hard luck and their struggles with diabetes and related health conditio...

Mondays are lame. They really are. Today was an especially lame one. And it's January. Mid-January no less. Sure, there are lamer times of the year (mid-February anyone?), but coming off the back of the holiday season and coupled with the doom and gloom of our current economic climate, things se...

Or livejournal has. Or maybe I just hit Post at the wrong time. Whether or not lj's problems are a beat-up, it seems a useful time to get an archive happening, and ljArchive is a zippy solution. Precisely what I do with the archive in case of emergency is yet to be determined, but it's nice to have ...

From the endearingly twisted mind of Barry Kite, The Aberrant Artist (author of Damn! A Christmas Book with Sex, Violence, Drugs & Fruitcake )....

I have, in my career, been told many times that something will be easy; just use Plesk. Not once has it solved a problem for me. Unless that problem is, “What is something I can waste my time with until the guy at the other end discovers that ‘Plesk’ is not spelled S-S-H?” Pl...

Overreaching corporate claims are nothing new, certainly when it comes to copyright. Toyota vastly over-reached recently, requesting all images containing their products be removed from a wallpaper site, citing copyright issues. Finally, Toyota responds. Civil litigation and especially copyright dis...

Motoring giant Toyota is normally ahead of the curve when it comes to technology. The company is known for innovations like the Synergy Drive in the Prius, as well as long term reliability. However, if you take pride in your Toyota, and have it as a wallpaper on your system, Toyota doesn’t wan...