Stephen Cobb's Personal Blog

When your company has to notify its customers about a change to online security procedures and decides to use email as part of that notific...

Yes, these two people are the same person, my cousin, the actor Nick Tennant. To my mind, that is what great acting is all about, the abilit...

Two days ago, London's Curzon Mayfair hosted the premiere of "The Hogfather," Sky's hi-def film screen adaptation of the T...

This is where technology meets politics: electronic voting. It is clear to anyone with an open mind that something went wrong in the already...

While the price of diesel fuel is not directly related to gyroscopically stabilized transportation, it does raise questions about efforts to...

On a couple of recent business trips I saw several groups of Segways, leading me to rethink my notion that this device was something of a fl...

This story caught my eye and gave me hope, high schoolers raising money to help Darfur . There is a web site where schools can sign up . I t...

As promised...this is where the Ubuntu thread continues from the original " Cobbon blog ." Ubuntu is now installed on the 1999 Com...

Yep, this is what's next. A separate blog for thoughts on arts and entertainment. And let me start with a shameless plug for the current...

Why isn't the world doing more to stop the genocide in Darfur? I keep searching for the answer to this question and can't find one. ...