Archive for June, 2006

Since April I have been driving nearly every workday from my home in San Antonio to my current work location in Austin, via IH-35. This portion of IH-35 is very full of traffic, and there is an almost continuous ribbon of cities and businesses all along the corridor. The San Antonio-Austin corridor has the...

The Democratic party’s chances of gaining any seats in the Congress this November, or of winning the presidency in 2008, are pretty much nil, in my opinion. Democrats have failed to come up with any sort of cohesive message that will appeal to voters, and we can’t discount the Karl Rove effect, the fact...

Back in 1986, I purchased what at that time was an absolutely wonderful, modern, and advanced piece of computer hardware: a Tandy TRS-80 Model 102. The thing was nothing more than a small box with a wonderful, full-size keyboard and a small LCD screen. It did a few things very well, one of which...