A few years ago one of my favorite television shows was taken out of production for no fault of its own. Legend of the Seeker had enjoyed considerable success in syndication. But disaster struck in December 2009 when the Tribune Co. filed for bankruptcy. The company then controlled 1/3 of the US television stations that carried Legend of the Seeker and to save costs they stopped carrying the show. …
Cloud computing is almost ubiquitous now. It is virtually everywhere, and you have no idea of how many online services you use that are hosted on cloud networks. Cloud computing is hard to define for the layman. Most people really don’t understand what a computer does because they come in all sizes, are used for all purposes, and perform many special functions that may only be required of certain special types of computers. …
No, the Web is not safer or more secure for adopting the HTTPS protocol. In fact, the Web has never realized any legitimate security benefit from using HTTPS protocol, not even on ecommerce Websites. Unfortunately, recent advances in the propaganda campaign coming from people who should be smart enough to know better are beginning to convince more and more corporate decision-makers to convert their Websites to use HTTPS protocol.…
Well, I’m back.
J.R.R. Tolkien used those words to end The Lord of the Rings but having started and deleted this post twice now I think I’ll just borrow his words and get the beginning out of the way. I have been building Websites since 1996. But for some reason it wasn’t until December 2005 that I decided to set up an actual “blog”.…
Stever has submitted some comments for publication that I have not published or rejected as I write this. I’m not impressed enough with the “new” Blogger service to upgrade this account and I don’t have the ability to edit comments. I will post part of Stever’s latest submission here and reply to that portion. The portion I am leaving out is a reference to Ickipedia, a source of disinformation I neither trust nor endorse.…
1200 scientists and innumerable government-appointed editors are in the process of telling us that human-induced global warming has begun.
Let’s get real for a moment. This has happened before. It has happened more than once before. Regardless of whether dinosaur flatulence contributed to any periods of global warming during their period of ascendancy, scientists are acting like humanity is on a self-destructive path that is altering the natural state of the universe.…
By the time a story hits the front page of CNN’s Web site, it’s probably been digested many times over in smaller journalistic circles. And having seen what national/international media can do to the facts of various industries, I take whatever I read there with a huge grain of salt.
Still, it’s curious to find that some people with genetic variations may want to propagate them through selective embryo screening.…
I’ve been watching the reruns of Enterprise that SciFi has moved to its Monday night lineup. I did enjoy watching the first season of Enterprise but after a few months my schedule became too busy and I lost track of the show.
I know many hard-core Star Trek fans disliked the show but every Star Trek show has been greated with equal hostility by fans of the previous show.…
This was one of those movies I knew was coming down the pipeline but really had not paid much attention to. I guess it had “kiddie flick” written all over its promotional copy so I had no real expectations for it.
Well yesterday I was out spending money and stopped at one of the local malls right after it started snowing.…
Scientists have announced that their estimates of the universe’s age were just a little off. So the hydrogen that comprises about half a typical human’s body mass is not 13 billion years old, it’s 13.7 billion years old.
Doesn’t that make you feel young as an Elf?
I’ve always wondered, though, how scientists can live with the idea that Earth is at the center of the universe.…
Sounds like the title for a science fiction or fantasy story, doesn’t it? I should probably run a contest for whomever can write the best story to the title “I have no heart and you must eat my soul”. But I’m not sure what I could give away as a prize. Maybe a couple of autographed copies of my books? Yeah, I can see the legions of fans beating down the doors to write blazing copy for me.…
People ask some of the strangest questions (well, they may seem strange in the morning). I get a lot of traffic on Xenite.Org for various topics. When you have that much content, you capture a lot of queries in the search engines.
I used to see the question “Why did the Elves sail west?”(Answer: To get to the other side of the Sea) come up a lot.…
