Gordaen’s Blog

I was browsing around some high tech sites today and saw quite a few excellent opportunities. I am not likely to pursue a career in electronics or engineering, despite having the aptitude, but I still enjoy seeing what is out there. Unfortunately, I don’t always enjoy what I see. Sometimes I come […]

Even though Wacom is the name in graphics tablets, I decided to go with a brand I hadn’t heard of. My primary reason was because the Wacom tablet I wanted was a couple hundred dollars more than I wanted to spend. I possibly would have bought that one if I could have tested […]

Besides reading some of the well known ones like Dilbert, I like to read various comics on the Internet. Here are a few of them (they all often feature adult themes, e.g., sex, violence, etc.):
Cyanide and Happiness - extremely simplistic visuals but great (read: sadistic) humor
Perry Bible Fellowship - bizarre, random, hilarious
Brain Cud - […]

On the fifth, Dreamhost had some security issues. If my blog was inaccessible around that time, that’s why. Here’s what they (DH) said about it:
We’re still working to determine how this occurred, but it appears
that a 3rd party found a way to obtain the password information
associated with approximately 3,500 separate FTP accounts and […]

This video is one of the coolest “nature” videos I have seen. You can see human behavior (I guess that makes our behavior animalistic, no surprise there), such as when the lions get chased off but come part of the way back. You can almost hear them saying, “What? What? You want a […]