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June 19, 2005 - Out of all the mysterious things on your computer and/or the Internet, cookies seem to be near the top of the list. From SearchCIO.com, a cookie is defined as a file on a Web user's hard drive (it's k ...

June 11, 2005 - Blogging has become fairly gigantic in the United States, ranking somewhere in between "Saved by the Bell" (now just a cult following) and "Friends" (a much, much larger cult following) in popularity. ...

June 11, 2005 - Since the full article is no longer available online, I figured it would be easiest to just post right here. Ex-Owensboro resident pens humorous Internet novel By James Mayse | Messenger-Inquirer ...

June 03, 2005 - You might as well face it, the U.S. is addicted to email.

June 01, 2005 - It's rather easy to assume you know something, especially if it's based on previous knowledge that you are familiar with. And there is oftentimes a level of obviousness in certain things that make que ...

May 25, 2005 - The Crawfordsville Journal Review recently featured my book, The Developers in its weekend ETC edition. The article is no longer available on the newspaper's website, so here's the full v ...

May 18, 2005 - The movie is officially out. Move along and see it.

May 16, 2005 - The Developers can now be purchased at Carmichael's Bookstore, Louisville's oldest independent bookstore.

May 13, 2005 - Apparently, no actual time travelers showed up at the Massachusetts Institiute of Technology's recent time traveler convention. It's hard to tell, though whether or not that means there are no time tr ...

May 13, 2005 - I received the first shipment of The Developers Thursday, so now begins the FUN task of making people read it. Fortunately for you, the potential reader, I've misplaced my torture devices ...

May 11, 2005 - Wondering where all that spam is coming from? There's a good chance it's coming from the south Florida. Spamhaus, an international non-profit organization whose mission is to track spam, noted that ...

May 09, 2005 - Just when you thought you understood something as simple as concrete, it has now been changed. Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed bendable concrete, which ...

April 28, 2005 - I never claimed to be the biggest "Star Wars" fan on earth. Sure, I had a lot of action figures when I was a kid. I've seen the movies a bunch of times. And I helped create an entire newspaper publ ...

April 26, 2005 - I've been told by my publisher that my book, "The Developers," a book about ... hmm, not much of anything, is almost ready. It is due to be finished May 10. I'm currently busy trying to prepare a few ...

April 20, 2005 - The ever-popular Meetup.com website will begin charging its groups a monthly fee beginning May 1, 2005, and while the price is still fairly cheap, it's more than free.

April 17, 2005 - Just in case, you might want to start stashing a couple of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in your freezer. For now, the U.S. courts de ...

April 14, 2005 - A recent survey compiled in the UK showed that the common computer user didn't understand, or even worse, had nev ...

April 12, 2005 - A relatively new device installed in DWI offenders' cars should contribute to fewer drunk-driving accidents, basically because the vehicle won't even start. Authorities in New Mexico have mandated ...

April 10, 2005 - For someone who depends on the Internet for many things (assuming my mom will stop calling and just instant message me), it is definitely easy to get freaked out when my connection goes down. I usuall ...

April 08, 2005 - Some people I know who refuse to date people online say so for one simple reason: "I don't know if people are who they say they are." This is a funny comment first off because even if you met peopl ...

April 06, 2005 - Finding a taxi in a large city can sometimes be as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack. Then again, there are usually very few haystacks in the city, and besides, why do people put needles in ...

April 03, 2005 - If you're in the technology field, and you feel that every project that you work on is completed close to 38 years late, you are not alone. Globeandmail.com reported that a market research firm Inf ...

April 01, 2005 - (We interrupt this regularly scheduled program to give you information about the only important thing going on this weekend ... the Louisville Cardinals in the Final Four) University of Louisville ...

March 31, 2005 - In what appears to defy the laws of nature, an octopus has been videotaped taking a leisurely stroll along the ocean floor in Indonesia. "I do this all the time," the octopus said. "What's funny is ...

March 29, 2005 - There was a bit of a buzz recently when America Online changed its instant messenging Terms of Service. The change seems to state that AOL is allowed to use anything posted by users whenever it sees f ...

March 27, 2005 - I've never been much of a snooze bar pusher, but I can't say the same for some of my college roommates. I never understood why they would purposely set their alarms early and then be awakened six or s ...

March 25, 2005 - In case you missed it (or somehow, didn't even know it existed), the Eighth Annual USA Memory Championship was held March 12. Ram Kolli, a 24-year-old computer science student at Virginia Tech, placed ...

March 23, 2005 - Not all people troll the Internet looking for happy things like puppies, flowers and pot pies. While you could certainly find them, they are not nearly as easy to find as corporate hate sites. Maybe h ...

March 21, 2005 - Your local (or not-so-local) scientist is currently busy trying to figure out many things, including cures to terminal illnesses, ways to make the environment safer and the reason why reality TV is so ...

March 19, 2005 - Surely by now, you've started to realize that many of those ads you see on the Internet for free stuff might just be bogus. Of course, there might be some truth to the "free" part, but that could i ...