Stephen Cobb's Personal Blog

[ Update : I originally published this post in October of 2014 when public discussion of "White Privilege" surfaced in mainstream ...

What can we do to ensure a better future for technology? A future with less cybercrime and more trust in digital technology? I addressed the...

The advice to "fake it until you make it" has popped up several times recently in my online meanderings, raising some interesting ...

I published "Privacy for Business: Web sites and email" in 2002. Much of the content about privacy principles in business is still...

Has Google messed up your Chrome bookmarks with its "new, improved" bookmark system? Don't panic! You can fix it and go back t...

Naked Woman on Horseback might sound like a porn video but it's also a timely topic for the month of April, the month when taxes are fr...

A writer once wrote: Complacency is the curse of comfort. I think what he means is that a comfortable life can lead us to become complacent ...

I came to America on a ship. That statement, which is true, can be useful in conversations. For example, when I want to emphasize my age. At...

What follows is the definitive telling of my story about the Australian redback spider and its pedagogical employment in a theological conte...

I enjoy reading a wide range of blogs. Recently, I was shocked to visit one of my own blogs -- this one -- and see that I had not posted any...