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Worth Double the Price

This essay used to be on the Dovdox site, but it was a casualty of the recent technical glitches. Rather than try to reformat it as a Wiki section, I decided to publish it here. It’s the first of two...

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Lust for Powerbooks

This is the second of two articles about Linux that used to reside on the main part of the site – it’s a somewhat more whimsical look at why someone might install this operating system on an old Apple....

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Learning New Languages

Recently, I started getting back into an old hobby: computer programming. My use of the term “computer programming” suggests just how old this hobby is for me; these days, it’s known as Information...

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Crossing Over

I've been struggling with a tricky problem in Web design lately: how to preview my sites in Internet Explorer. For my personal site, I largely ignore that buggy browser's bizarre behaviors (see my...

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Simple Hack: Magnetic Mac

There are powerful magnets hidden inside the screens of recent-model iMacs*; mine has them all around the edges. I don’t know why Apple put them there, but here’s my favorite use: holding documents...

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