Drew's Blog

This blog article today is non-technical. It is about food, cooking and grocery shopping. Family members and my grad school room mate who ...

If you aren't much interested in writing software, this post is probably not for you. If you read the post without following the links ...

I'm writing this on August 19, 2014. John Cotton Dana was born on August 19, 1856 in Woodstock, Vermont. I looked him up after I cam...

If you've been following this blog, you're aware that I feel unprepared to make good use of the Object Oriented Programming facilit...

For many years now, Economics has been known as the " dismal science ". So, who better than a (Canadian) economist to deliver a ...

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I stumbled across this article from a web site unfamiliar to me: http://www.care2.com/causes/if-plastic-bags-are-causing-infertility-in-pig...

My blog article today is a bit off of the beaten path for me. Instead of looking at a software topic, today's blog article topic is mor...

As you may remember from my article Adventures in Home Networking , we very badly wanted to get out of using Cablevision. They'd agree...

Problems with Internet security have been much in the news lately as our homes have been getting more and more connected to the Internet wi...

Here are a couple of videos from luminaries in the software world that I believe are worth the time to watch. First is Rob Pike explaining...

If you've been paying attention to the social media, you may have noticed that there's a lobbying group called "Penny for NASA...

Bill Gates is the well known founder of Microsoft. I'm not a fan of Bill nor of Microsoft. I am an advocate for "open source...

I got the exciting news today that the son of my wife's daughter (which modulo the complications of 2nd marriages would make him my Gra...