I’ll be that probably almost everyone reading has heard that question from a parent / guardian / teacher or other authority figure at least once, probably dozens of times. It’s also a phrase that I’ve been catching myself using when going through my email. Yes, I am not a hamster but I do admit talking to my email (and other) programs.

With the retirement of Bill Gates (you know, the guy credited with saying that 640k was enough for anybody?) Well, it seems that one of his functions has been to try and keep the folks at Microsoft in step with reality. One of the ways was shown in an email he sent to [...]

I got another one of *those* emails today. You know the kind, you get most of them not from the automated spam-bots around the Internet, but from your friends and family members.
I’m sure you’ve seen the kind I’m talking about. They all offer some sage advice, a poem, a moving story or even [...]

Yes, they are related. I saw an AP news story that went into some details about how the White House handles it’s computers. It’s got to do with old workstations being replaced. In the process their hard drives are sent to another govt agency to be physically destroyed.
The reason this came up [...]

Like a lot of people, I subscribe to various news services to get “Breaking News” reports. Now aside from the fact that many times the things that appear in these emails hardly qualify as “breaking news” by any stretch, I am not a hamster, there are sometimes headlines that I’d like to follow up [...]