Gavin’s Digital Diner

People who know me know that I am quite proud of my brother.  Frederick is the Chef at the Tenaya Lodge just outside of the gates of Yosemite National Park in California. 
I grew up around food. I can’t remember when I didn’t know how to cook and I was a teenager before I knew [...]

Full disclosure: I’ve been using a Blackberry since … well, since I can’t remember not having one. I love it. I’ve traveled with it all over the world, and it’s worked just about everywhere.
Also I have to add that we have the Blackberry Enterprise Server (known affectionately as Bessie). So this is not a [...]

Several years ago – during the Dot-Com crazy years, there was a company called DigitalConvergence. They were going to “revolutionize” marketing by linking barcodes in magazine advertising with online web sites. To participate in this revolution you had to have a barcode scanner (called a Cue Cat), be sitting near your PC, see something that [...]

So, with all this talk about logic puzzles, the voice of the people, and the value of various types of communications, I decided to do a little homework. After all, I publicly committed heresy. And, while several people (privately) agreed with me, and others suggested that we get to make our voice heard every election [...]

This is a copy of a reply I posted on the NTEN-Discuss listserv. The original post was a call to action about Congress implemeting an "anti-spam" feature on constituant email. The plan called for implementing a system that would:
…“require human interaction (by answering a question or retyping displayed letters/numbers) before the email could be submitted [...]