As I write these words, I am also vacuuming the floor. In a manner of speaking. My Roomba, a robotic vacuum cleaner is actually doing the work. In that sense, in a few minutes, I will be washing my kitchen Read More …

Back a few months ago, Karen and Elizabeth Shatz were found guilty of their child's murder (they pleaded guilty). The adopted child was beaten to death by following the instructions in a fundamentalist Christian child-rearing book. Another mother, Lynn Paddock, Read More …

Back a few months ago, Karen and Elizabeth Shatz were found guilty of their child's murder (they pleaded guilty). The adopted child was beaten to death by following the instructions in a fundamentalist Christian child-rearing book. Another mother, Lynn Paddock, was found guilty of Read More …

A classic tune from the 80s by XTC, back when music videos were still cool.

Watching this was all I needed for a serious geek mind trip.  

The Kobo Vox eReader is a departure from the classic e-paper devices in that it's a full-fledged Android tablet.  It turns on with just a touch; used as I am to the classic Android power-on, I kept holding down the Read More …

In the third part of this course, I introduced you  to the virtual machine manager or virt-manager. Today, I'm going to show you how to create your own virtual machine with virt-manager. There are two ways (using virt-manager, that is . Read More …

In your own private cloud, there are a number of ways to work with virtual machines. Amazon's cloud uses Xen for its virtualization infrastructure, but in your own cloud, you are free to use Xen or KVM or Virtualbox, or Read More …

60 Minutes did a program on using iPads as tools to help autistic children (and adults) communicate. Of particular interest to people in my part of the world is a segment that focuses on Beverley School in Toronto. The school Read More …