In Blood & Spirit

Most journalists, politicians and lay people unfortunately do not seem to understand much at all about macro-economics from what I’ve read of articles, speeches and comments on the Web. They don’t get that there is a significant difference between macro-economics and micro-economics much less what that difference might be. They seem to think that because [...]

There was a recent article in Wired about the era of the password being over – Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can’t Protect Us Anymore Once you have read the article, listened to the podcast and read my comments I invite everyone to comment on this topic that is important to almost [...]

One of the best things I’ve seen on TV lately! Krystal Ball from The Cycle on MSNBC debunks the pernicious and totally false analogy that the federal budget is just like your household or business budget and it should be balanced or even more silly, that balancing it should be easy. Plan fact is that [...]

Recently I attended the new Formula One (F1) American Grand Prix race at the new track in Austin Texas and it got me to thinking about economics. No sensible person would recommend buying or starting an F1 team (or any racing team for that matter) to compete for a season and run two cars without [...]

I just read an article in the Atlantic about teaching and teacher and for  the first time it was an article that made real sense. It is called Bootcamp for Teachers and it makes the point that we train military jet pilots for years before putting them in a multimillion dollar jet, but we basically just  [...]

For the longest time I have been a bit perplexed by what “conservatives” really mean when they say things like they, “believe in smaller government” and “less regulation is better for business”. Do they really mean that they wanted to get rid of most if not all “entitlements” and many departments  of government except the [...]

“The Cloud” is basically the movement of all the data and applications to more central locations (servers in big data centers if you care) where they can be managed and updated by experts. Our many overlapping, fast and nearly ubiquitous networks (wired, cell, wireless, Internet, etc…) are an integral part of “The Cloud” as well. [...]

Taylor Mali, teacher and slam poet, gives you a piece of his mind on what teachers really make. He has a policy on honesty and a$$kicking that if you really ask for it he has to give it to you! Betcha didn’t think he was going to say all that did you?

My step-father, Bob Schenkkan, died yesterday (Wednesday, Feb 9th, 2010) at age 93. Bob was wonderful to my mother, my little brother, David and me, but Bob was a remarkable person and lived a full and remarkable life so I thought I would write a little and put pictures, links and other information here in [...]

I wrote an article late last year here about the open-source and freeware applications that I used on my Windows XP PC (a Dell D620 Duo Core with 4GB RAM and a 100GB hard drive). It is now about time to update this article with what I’m using on my new laptop (a Lenovo W510 [...]