Back in November I posted about a woman who had a undergone the world's first partial face transplant and the unfortunately hilarious (to me, anyway) choice of advertisement that ABC News placed next to it when I saw it (two people wearing dinosaur masks).
The media is now reporting that …
As a professional software developer, I'm often stymied when asked for an estimate on how long a given program or feature will take to design and implement. The problem with making such estimates is that I'm rarely doing the same thing twice. Software doesn't wear out, so if it needs …
An article in today's Deseret News tells of a group of Utah religious leaders who have all signed a letter to the state senate president urging the legislature to raise the state's minimum wage. This is a bad idea! The minimum wage is just that: a minimum wage. It is …
No no no, my friends don't call me O.J., but it is the closing line of a rather inspirational story I related during a speech I gave in high school. I don't remember exactly how the story went since some 19 1/2 years have passed. Fortunately, a little …
Before you point it out to me, I know the correct spelling is pronunciation. However, the word has two perfectly valid pronunciations, as illustrated in the title. I bring this up because I was listening to a local radio talk show and heard the host say "err on the side …
As a tech guy, I periodically reformat my computer and reinstall the operating system. This is almost required of Windows XP. No, you don't have to do it, but the more software you install and remove over time, the more things are likely to build up (files, registry entries, etc …
There is an amusing situation out there that I want to share with you, but before I can, I need to give you a little background. There is a man out there by the name of Richard M. Stallman (aka RMS). He is the founder of the Free Software Foundation …
Note: this is not a review of the 1997 movie Face/Off starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage, which featured a dual face transplant. :)
ABC News is reporting that a French woman has received a partial face transplant (the first of its kind, apparently.) While the article goes into some …
Reason 1: The supposed versioning of the Remote Access Services API is broken. You pass the address of a structure to a function with the first DWORD of that structure set to the size of the structure. This is supposed to enable RAS (or any similar API) to detect what …
A number of years ago (from 1992 to 1995) I worked for a company in Murray, Utah, by the name of Clark Development Company (CDC for short; I mention this just so you don't become confused by my later use of CDC and think it means Centers for Disease Control …