Dear Microsoft: Why Are You Killing Windows 10? Exactly 6 months from today, Microsoft will kill Windows 10. There’s nothing wrong with Winndows 10. It’s a great operating system. But many are going to have to throw away a perfectly good computer because of the Windows 11 hardware requirements. And yes, there’s 0patch and Microsoft’s ESU (Extended… Read More »
A Man Called Sam When I was growing up, I stayed with my grandparents on the weekends and during my summer vacations from school. Not because I was sent there but because I loved being with my grandparents. And, when I was 7 or 8, there were no other kids in the neighborhood my age, so my… Read More »
The Witch of 42nd Street The world has changed so much since I was a kid. I suppose every generation has said that. My grandfather saw the first cars, the first airplanes, the first radios, the first telephones, the first TVs, and the first color TVs, and he lived long enough to see a man set… Read More »
The Eye of a Needle “And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.” …Matthew 19:24 Maybe because it’s the season of Lent I started thinking about today’s world. But it doesn’t matter whether you’re… Read More »
The Way We Were Most of us think back on the past as a simpler, less complicated time. We all love to let our thoughts drift back to our childhoods – no matter how old we are – most of us imagine it was a more beautiful and innocent world and a more peaceful time in our lives.… Read More »
HFCS: A Killer On and Off the Cob In 2011, we wrote an essay entitled A Kllier on the Cob. It’s been 14 years and the prevalence of HFCS in foods and beverages produced in the United States has not changed – and maybe even worsened. Smuckers wrote us a letter about that article telling us… Read More »