I was reading an article today and it struck one of my chords. You know the one deep down that makes you sit up say, “Hey, that's right.”   The article talked about the negligible value of news as a “pay now to read” item.   Think about it. Apart from the rubbernecking value – [...]

President Obama may get pushed out of his internet attained office because of Health care.   On the subject of Health care, I’ll be brief and anecdotal only. Someone with more available time may like to turn this into an empirical analysis.   I thought I would do a quick little comparison for Health care [...]

What are the biggest memes of our age, our culture, or for that matter, this week? And why? About a decade ago Sir Bob Geldoff had a superlative idea – to feed the starving in Africa. A global fund raising event was staged and millions of dollars raised from the world. Songs were written. Records [...]

I used to run a BBS in the eighties. The famed KKK. Koltai's Kakadu Konnection. The technology to run a BBS required many hours of dedication and weeks of waiting for new widgets/gadgets, and hours waiting for the overnight UUCP email responses from technical support in the USA and England.   I used a combination [...]