I recently came across an article that had to do with how people perceive happiness. Some researchers have discovered that people, in general, tend to overestimate the effects, both positive and negative, associated with a particular action. For instance, if I decide to get a new computer, I will naturally overestimate the happiness that owning […]
I’ve been reminiscing about a peculiar personality trait of mine. For some reason, I’m never really satisfied with accepting how or why something works. One prominent example is the way that I learned HTML. I started, like most beginners, by playing with a WYSIWYG (pronounced “wizzy-wig”) editor. I could drop things into place, and the […]
So today we’ve been going through a bunch of our server access logs, and we’ve been finding loads of people who are still infected with some sort of virus or another. Enough people that three of us are almost constantly on the phone with someone over the course of the day.
The scary part is that […]
I feel the need to let inquiring minds know why I was so absent from the web world over the summer. I did come up with some new ideas for my website, and I’ve started work on implementing them. Some are nearly finished, while others are just getting off the ground. Sadly, they’ll all have […]
Bright and early Saturday morning, about 0900, I got a knock at the apartment door. I immediately assumed it was someone wanting to see my still-sleeping roommate since I never get visitors, but I got the door anyway.
Standing there in the cool autumn morning air were two well-dressed gentlemen, asking me about my religious affiliation. […]