Stephen Cobb's Personal Blog

The number of people and companies who abuse the word SPAM continues to amaze me (that's me speaking as someone who started ringing alar...

As a rule, the men who lead the petroleum industry cannot be trusted to tell the truth about their industry. In other words, you should neve...

Using Facebook means sharing personal information with at least some people, but Facebook sometimes makes changes to the way sharing works....

Face it folks, it's time to dust off the Privacy Meter for a quick check of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. According to an internal s...

Interesting initiative I just spotted: A New Public/Private Consortium to Drive Small Business Growth Through the Access to Broadband Consta...

I was browsing the Iron Disorders Institute web site last night and came across a story about hemochromatosis in an Irish newspaper. Since ...

I just upgraded the RAM on my Mac Mini and it has made a big difference to performance so I figured I would share some tips on this type of ...

Okay, so this is not exactly monumental news from the road, but it is a cool milestone. My ten year-old Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo passed 10...

ION Upstate New York, NY Project - Round I Broadband Stimulus Awards

I just noticed that my letter to the editor of the Daily Star about rural broadband was published (back on February 15). I have pasted the ...