Bruce Momjian: Blog Index: Ordered by Category

Bruce Momjian

Blog Index: Ordered by Category

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Arts

Sinatra's Homes

Fifteen Clunky Phrases to Eliminate

Periodic Table of Typefaces

Ken Burns's Jazz Documentary

The Role of Artists

The 100 Best Movie Songs

"I've Been Everywhere"

Mistakes in Typography Grate the Purists

Two Things You Did Not Know About 2001

Star Wars Photo

Making Star Trek

Return to Wonkaland

Inside the Philadelphia Orchestra

A Christmas Carol

'King of Voiceovers' No More

"Once Upon a Time in America"

Hedgerow In The News

Performing at Yankee Stadium

Playing Sinatra For Fifty Years

Community

Hamas's Antisemitic Influence Is Even Bigger than the Nazis

It's Time to Drop the 'LGBT' From 'LGBTQ'

The Woke War Against African Americans

A Year After George Floyd's Murder, It's 'Open Season' in Minneapolis

Local Ethnic Food Stores

The Questionable Link Between Saturated Fat and Heart Disease

Burning Question: Air Blowers or Paper Towels?

Japan Earthquake: Before and After

'Popularity Is Nothing ... Principles Are Forever'

25 Miners Free as Chile Rescue Goes Off Flawlessly

Confessions of a Tenured Professor

West Philadelphia Neighbors Fight To Save Their Block

It's Always Ugly in Philadelphia?

Rain, Rain, Gone?

Newspaper Meeting

Last Daily Print Edition of The Christian Science Monitor

San Diego F/A-18 Crash

The Phillies and William Penn

Local Estate for Sale

Activities for the Fall

Good Year For Agriculture

Friend Gets a New Job

Economics

The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy

Socialism Always Fails

Loan Sharks Come to Governments

Illegal Immigration as Outsourcing

Predatory Pricing and Venture Capital

Michele Steeb: America's Homeless Crisis

Some Blue-Collar Workers Probably Shouldn't Do Pink Jobs

Greeks, Economists Part Ways On Benefits of Eurozone

The Tyranny of Money

What Isn't for Sale?

Hard Unemployment Truths About 'Soft' Skills

Can the Middle Class Be Saved?

Whites' Net Worth Is 20 Times that of Blacks

When Smart People are Bad Employees

You Bought It. Are you Happy?

U.S. Billionaires Club Together to Give Away Half Their Fortunes to Good Causes

Credit Card Interchange Fees

A Chart That Screams, 'Extend Unemployment Benefits!'

The Chick-fil-A Approach

Amish Business Sense

The $100 Supernote

Great Depression II?

U.S. Dollar's Decline

Economy Rebounding?

Pretzel Explosion

Fast Food Service

Economic Rebound?

Irrational Bubbles

U.S. Economic Collapse

Don't the Democrats Want To Win the Presidency?

Home Electricity Usage

Electronics

Led Over Brightness

Cleaning Computers

The Small Tablet Trap

How to Set Up a Just-Smart-Enough Smart Home

Sony is no longer an electronics company

The Internet of Things You Don't Really Need

Computer Device Security

X10 Has Reemerged

Sony, Panasonic, Sharp Symbolize Japan's Decline as Electronics Hub

Coax Is Amazing

T-Mobile's Value Plans

Clean Your Computer Immediately

Replacement Therapy

Wireless Antenna Separation

Ordered New Server

Replacing Electronics

The Game-Changer Smartphone

If Search Is Google's Castle, Android Is the Moat

Twilight of the Desktop

Goodbye Verizon Wireless

Trouble sleeping? Maybe it's your iPad

Tech of Yesteryear

Verizon's Unreasonable Data Plan Requirement

Ten Things Mobiles Have Made, or Will Make, Obsolete

The 'WiFi At Conferences' Problem

Your Laptop Is Lying to You

XBox 360 Should Be Called XBox +50

Wireless Wireless Internet

HD Clarity Beyond Reality

Number of Home Computers Doubled in One Year

Computer Advances?

OK, I Am Using Bluetooth

Increasing Wireless Access Point Coverage

Ultraportable Notebook Computer

Christmas Gifts, Including GPS

Disappointing Technology Products of 2007

Good Cell Phone Reception

Computer Museum

Blinking Lights

Most Annoying Technical Products

Technology Product Failures

Fifty Best Technical Products

Faith

Politics Distorting Evangelicals

Christian Revivals

Weavertown Amish Mennonite Church

Online Amish Resources

Free Will Is an Illusion?

Why Individual Liberty Should Have Limits

The Future of the Church

America Without God

Three Decades Ago, America Lost Its Religion. Why?

The Challenge of Easter

America's Fading Faith in Christianity and Capitalism

Amish Evangelicals

How Long Can Muslim Insults Continue?

Atheism on the Rise Around the Globe

Four Days of Church

How Christian is Christmas?

More Muslim Reaction to the Bin Laden Killing

Rational Faith?

The Certainty of Uncertainty

A History of God

Christmas Card Mystery Object

Fixing the Middle East?

Green Chri$tma$

Family

The End of Men: Video

Six Reasons Why Men Are Avoiding Marriage

Why Women Still Can't Have It All

All the Single Ladies

Women and Houses

How to Land Your Kid in Therapy

Leave Those Kids Alone

Internet Parental Controls

Flight

Flight Diversion

The Airline Industry's Problem with Absolutely Ancient IT

Foreign Incarceration

Do Our Gadgets Really Threaten Planes?

Airline Merger Could Adversely Affect Philadelphia International Airport

How Travel Makes You Smarter, Sexier and More Productive

This Is Your Captain Screaming

Portland, Oregon: Different

TSA posts document on airport screening procedures online

International Cell Phone Coverage

The Ineffectiveness of Airport Security

The Real International Experience

Traveling Limit Reached

Airport Security

Travel Observations

International Shipping

Back from Russia

Returned from Pakistan

Airline Flights

Games

Why Video Games Are Fun

Completed Second Stalker Game

Learning Nuclear History Through Computer Games

Next Version of Stalker

Game Finally Over

Oops, Game Not Over

Government

America Has Gone Too Far in Legalizing Vice

A New Theory of American Power

Obama's Lost Opportunity

Mentally Ill U-Turn

Why Azerbaijan Will Keep Attacking Armenia

Foreign Incarceration Developments

The Bad Guys Are Winning

Can Progressives Be Convinced That Genetics Matters?

Are Governments Always Beneficial?

The Left's Moral Compass Isn't Broken …

Joe Biden and the Slow Death of Liberalism

Why It Took Congress 40 Years to Pass a Bill Acknowledging the Armenian Genocide

Hong Kong's Oppression Might Be Ours Too

The Case For Trump

Frustrating Lack of Representation

Why Entitlements Keep Growing, and Growing, and ...

The Exhaustion of American Liberalism

Obama Stayed Out of the Swamp, and That Hurt Him

United Kingdom Votes to Leave the European Union

President Obama and "Radical Islam"

How the Pentagon Punished Nsa Whistleblowers

Donald Trump Is Going To Win

Trump's America

Europe's New Medieval Map

Closing Europe's Harbors

What that Concession Speech Really Means

Obama Reelection Challenges

Twilight Of the Left

Chris Christie at the Rnc

Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran

Secret 'Kill List' Proves a Test of Obama's Principles and Will

Santorum Suspends Presidential Campaign

The Tyranny of Defense Inc.

The Rise of the New Global Elite

More on Osama bin Laden

ObamaCare, One Year In

The President as Micromanager

Five Rules for Coping with Tragedy

Wikileaks Real Impact

Normalizing Children

North Kore Video

How America Can Rise Again

Respected Pennsylvania State Senator Briefly Retires

Armenian Massacre Statement by Obama

Obama: The Completion

The New Era of Big Government?

Post-Election Analysis

A Liberal Supermajority

United States Dominance

Catch Me But You Can't

Journalists Heading to Pennsylvania

United States Policy Shift In Iraqi Troop Surge

Pennsylvania State Flag

Pastor Meets President Bush

Armenian Genocide Resolution Passed by U.S. House Committee

Governor Sets Bad Example

History

Armenian Genocide Summary

Why Socialism Will Never Die and Plague Humanity Forever

The Day I Discovered My Grandparents Survived a Genocide

Climb the New High Mountain

A Gorgeous Photographic Elegy to the Last Great Steam Train

Hitler and the False Lure of More Is Better

My Father's Collecting

Atom Bombs: The Top Secret Inside Story of Little Boy and Fat Man

The Good Old Days

The Main Line: Country Houses 1870-1930

Big Environmental Disasters

Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals

Portrait of 9/11 'Jackal' Emerges as He Awaits Trial

Hungarian Picnic Leads to the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Adolf Hitler's Private World

The Bomb You Never Knew

Terms From the Middle Ages

More Military Deaths in Some Years of Peace Than War

September 11 NORAD Tapes

Humor

No Reservations: Iceland — Special Edition

It Was The Eighth Subscription Card That Convinced Me

50 Worst Gadgets You Can Buy in SkyMall

The Office Christmas Party

Hey Man, You Got A Second So I Can Fire You?

Star Wars Disaster

Demotivational Posters

Look What My Wife Emailed Me

My site

Mobile Website Version

Web Site Comments

Web Site Fixed for Internet Explorer

Elephant Picture

News

Open source

Borg makes nice with open source. Oh please.

Are Proprietary Databases Doomed?

Open Source Pricing and Clones

Open Source Adoption

Open Source Economic Analysis

Oracle Opens Patents to Open Source

Oracle-Compatible Database

EnterpriseDB Doing Well

Proprietary And Open Source Business Models Merging

Open Source Licenses and Companies

Russia

The Russia I Grew Up in Doesn't Exist Anymore

Putin's Miscalculations

Russia's Assassination History

Cheaper to Purchase than Invade

Messengers from Moscow

Chernobyl Videos

Soviet Television Spy Miniseries

Soviet Study Complete

Soviet Assassinations

How Did Soviet Citizens Survive?

New Soviet Book

Fourth Book Finished

Thoughts on Fourth Book

Openness to Collapse

Fourth Soviet Book

Soviet Regression

Rethinking History

Soviet Defector

Bertrand Russell Visits the Soviet Union

Communism Never Had a Chance

Early Soviet Criticism

Lenin's Tragedy

Third Soviet Book

More Soviet History

Soviet History Quotation

Safety

The Battle for the World's Most Powerful Cyberweapon

When will COVID-19 end? A new CDC prediction has surfaced

The Wuhan Lab Leak Question: A Disused Chinese Mine Takes Center Stage

Digital Detectives

What the Coronavirus End Game Will Look Like

Spycraft in the Digital Age

Nuclear Weapons Control Systems

The Nsa and Too Much Safety

Interview With a Scammer

Fighting Cybercrime, One Digital Thug At A Time

Software

Weather Underground

Done Learning Javascript

Cable TV Is Doomed

Three Blockbuster Killers

The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash

Web Authoring Tools

Web Authoring Skills

Google Street View

Filtering Rss Feeds For Google Reader

Tracking New Web Site Changes With RSS

Missing Ubuntu Applications

Rhapsody On Linux

Using Ubuntu On My Laptop

New Operating System

Streaming Movies

x86 CPU Instruction Set

Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 7, Licenses User Interface Design

Switched to Firefox

Microsoft/Novell Deal

Tech jobs

When Working From Home Doesn't Work

As a Woman in Tech, I Realized: These Are Not My People

Think technology is disrupting the job market like never before? Think again.

The Real Job Threat

Programmer Advice

Technology

The Great Seal Bug Explained

Laptop Replacement

How has ancient Roman cement stood test of time so well?

Climate Apology

Good Water Is the Key to a Better Cup of Tea

Fossil Fuels Will Save the World (Really)

Why Innovation Won't Save Us

What Happened to Silicon Values?

Digital Sabbath?

Future Tense: Apple Sauce

Curing Concrete

Carry on as Before?

Technology Is Not the Answer

Antarctica, 1961: A Soviet Surgeon Has to Remove His Own Appendix

Secrets to a Successful Blog: Aesthetics

Remember When: A Poem About Technology

This is so true — the UK plug is ridiculous

Technical Support Excellence

Dynamic Telephone Routing

Oscon Talks Accepted

Water Towers? Who Knew?

Air Traffic Control Visit

Google Book Access

Why Old Technologies Are Still Kicking

Artificial Intelligence Handwaving

Computer Companies That Died

Free Telephone Directory Services

Email Disclaimers

A Better Mouse Trap

Thoughts

Leadership Training

The Lie We Live

The Electric Fence of Scientific Inquiry

The Cognitive Biases Tricking Your Brain

The War on Stupid People

Embracing Failure

Why Luck Matters More Than You Might Think

Reality Beyond that of your Senses

Critical Race Theory

Fear is deadlier than viruses

Camille Paglia on Hugh Hefner's Legacy

Southern Poverty Law Center Gets Creative to Label 'Hate Groups'

The Unbearable Smugness of the Press

The World Is Not Falling Apart

10 Things to Know About Compulsive Hoarding

A Troublesome Inheritance

Is "Leadership" Overvalued?

The Decline of the Civil-Rights Establishment

When the Fighting Stops

Can We Declare the War on Terrorism Over?

How Green Is Green?

Al Qaeda Is in Tatters

Costa Concordia Captain: Symbol of the Era?

Osama bin Laden Found in a City

Bin Laden Killing Prompts Arab Anger, Relief

Caribbean cruises to Haiti: 'Sickening' or the right thing?

Templeton Autobiography

Does the Vaccine Matter?

Slumdog Millionaire

Proofreading Redux

Atlantic Magazine Archive Now Open

Copyright Morality

Radiation Dangers Exaggerated

Reasons To Hate English

The Power of Nightmares Video

Actual vs. Perceived Risks

Tips

Learning How to Learn

What You're Missing When You Work From Home

Best Career Tip: Flip Mental Switch and Find 'The Zone'

Habitual Multitaskers Do It Badly

Time Management

Working From Home

Transportation

When Men and Cars Were Truly Bonded

Ride the Trans-Siberian Express?

New Celica Rims

Celica Burning Oil

Replacing a Car Based On the Price of Gasoline

Gasoline Prices

SUVs On Their Way Out

Toyota Celica Turns 22

1986 Toyota Pictures

Toyota Celica Repaired