Is Adobe the new Microsoft?

People sometimes ask me why I am not a fan of Adobe? The main reason is that they have very lackluster Macintosh support.  Misbehaving Installers, slow installers, and quality control that Microsoft would never accept. Microsoft is criticized for throwing out releasing and then over the next dozen or so patches slowly eliminating bugs (and […]

Rapier vs. Longsword, fight!

Many games, including Role Playing Games (D&D, I call you out!), treat most swords the same.  A Rapier is a Longsword, is a Rapier.  But they actually are quite different, and have significant differences. What would happen if a Longswordsman & a fighter with a rapier fought? Let\’s find out.

A Dad-inator? From Phineas & Ferb…

Why did I not hear about this?  The folks at Disney, have a Dad-inator… That\’s right, make a Phineas and Ferb themed Father\’s day card, with (or without) songs, and sound… Gosh darn…. I\’ll have to remember that for next Father\’s day….

A Waste of Money and Time – Room for Debate

Brice Schneider, the security technologist, and author, is debating on The Body Scanner issue in the New York Times… I highly recommend reading it… A short history of airport security: We screen for guns and bombs, so the terrorists use box cutters. We confiscate box cutters and corkscrews, so they put explosives in their sneakers. […]