Nowhere Near the Edge

Ford Motor Company is apparently doing everything it can to lean out its operations and avoid taking government bail-out money. Despite po...

Programming note: Number 1-ranked Duke taking on number 4-ranked Wake Forest made for good theater last night. Tonight, the lightly regarde...

My favorite baseball player of my youth, Will Clark, has returned to the San Francisco Giants as a special assistant. The Giants make unus...

I may be late to this party, but I'm no less enthusiastic for it. The neatest little program I've found recently is Pandora, which ...

The House has voted down a proposal to delay the date upon which all television stations must switch from analog to digital broadcasts. Th...

If you ever felt the need to search Flickr for images, this is an elegant way to do it.

If you always yearned to be a shop foreman, coordinating the construction of widgets, here is the Flash game for you. The key to the task i...

Being a parent means losing all the poise and dignity you spent a young lifetime building up, in small, jagged fragments, one teachable mome...

Stirring, forceful words: ... [O]ur distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the ...

The college basketball season is in full swing, and life is good in the Bay Area. Not only are the Cal Bears ranked No. 23 in the country, ...

Oakland is staging its own Rodney King revival, albeit in a much more tragic way. A 22 year old man was shot and killed at a BART station b...

Video games are often derided as the agent of laziness that are turning the brains of today's youth to mush. Some people, usually those ...

There is nothing quite like Christmas in a big city. Or so I've heard. I grew up in the suburbs, and lived in Los Angeles for the last...

It bears repeating , and shouting from the mountaintops, that Top Gear just may be the best show on television, let alone the best car show ...

If you have clear skies in your area Friday night, be sure to draw the shades if you want to get any sleep. The full moon on Friday will be...

Forty years ago this week, the Stanford Research Institute demonstrated a machine that was the progenitor of the computer you are using rig...

The stars truly will be aligned tonight. Or rather, a couple of planets and a moon. If you have clear skies this evening just after sundow...

At the time we bought the new house, it came with a non-functional old refrigerator. It was housed next to a slim cabinet that was further ...

My commute these days is a bit of an improvement over LA freeways:

Last week, the space shuttle Endeavor made what is likely the last night launch for the shuttle program. An acquaintance from one of my onl...