Its Mothers Day, be thankful you have a mom to call - so do it.

Mothers Day is always a tough one for me. My mom passed away 25 years ago and though time has passed to cover up a never healed wound, every Mothers Day the scab is torn off a bit and the regret...

DARPA Wants Matrix-style Virtual World for Cybergeddon

The US military's famed scientific wingnut farm, DARPA*, has released full details of its planned "National Cyber Range" - a mighty network which could be configured to simulate the cyberspace...

Security Flaw Turns Gmail into Open-Relay Server

A newfound flaw in Google's Gmail allows would-be spammers to treat the service as an open-relay server. Compounding the issue is the fact that services such as Hotmail and Yahoo "trust" Gmail....

Swingtown - This ain't your mother's CBS

I was reading a review in the NY Times today about a new summer time show coming to CBS. It is called Swingtown and I was originally attracted to it because it is a look back at the mid 70's. That...

A Brief Intro To Cryptographic Hashes/MD5

New Video: A Brief Intro To Cryptographic Hashes/MD5 A cryptographic hash function takes an input and returns a fixed size string that corresponds to it, called a hash. Cryptographic hashes have a...