Sid Meier is responsible for hours of my life disappearing. No, this has nothing to do with alien abductions. Sid Meier writes games. Moreover Sid is thee author of several games that [...]

There are bad software bugs and then there are very bad software bugs. Wired has put together a list of 10 bugs of the kind that caused things to blow up or [...]

I have heard that Ruby On Rails is an interesting technology for making internet front ends for databases but I would have to say I was still pretty impressed after reading Rolling [...]

If you are a fan of government conspiracies about big brother watching you then you should read one of the recent posts on John Dvorak’s blog The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a consumer [...]

I was interested to see that WallMart is selling “the first pentop computer”. I would be curious if anyone has tried this device. The idea is that you can draw a calculator, [...]

My personal understanding of the history of computer’s was rewritten with this artcicle Many encyclopedias and other reference works state that the first large-scale automatic digital computer was the Harvard Mark 1, [...]

Apparently the blackout in Los Angeles yesterday happened in the middle of a presentation to Windows developers about Windows Vista (aka Longhorn) at the Windows Developer Conference. There is no truth to [...]

When game developers no longer want to support games they sometimes just put the game in the public domain. Liberated Games is a website dedicated to cataloging all full commercial games that [...]

File this in the “truth can be stranger than fiction” category. From the Washington Post :  A 28-year-old South Korean man died of exhaustion in an Internet cafe after playing computer games [...]

The original version Civilization by Sid Meier is one of my all time favorite games. That version is not available for the latest operating systems but there is another version of Civilization [...]