I am always amazed, given how much they earn, that the talking heads on cable news networks are incapable of performing even rudimentary logic. Take the gentleman who was shot and killed by an Air Marshall today in Miami, Fla. I’m switching back and forth between coverage on Fox and CNN and both are making…

Dear Abby of all people jumps into the debate over blogging. This debate tends to boil down to two equally ridiculous camps. On the one side are the people who argue that you’d have to be insane to actually maintain a weblog or personal website. Don’t you know that potential employers could read your website…

Aside from the inane menu trees and the long wait times, nothing annoys me more than when I call a company for technical support and they try to sell me crap I don’t need during the call. There are two companies this happens with pretty much every time I call them — Charter Communications (my…

Stardock’s Multiplicity is essentially a software KVM that lets you control two computers using just one keyboard and mouse. There are plenty of KVM switches that let you do this, but the beauty of Multiplicity is that it does this in software with multiple computers that are on the same network. For example, I downloaded…