As I was doing a bit of clean-up around my computer, I thought that some people might enjoy some of the music concerts that I have been recording on the radio and digitizing over the years. I have uploaded them to a site called esnips where you can listen to all of the songs. You [...]

I hope that you are all enjoying the holiday season. Personally, I am really enjoying my two weeks off from work. I have also greatly enjoyed Christmas last week, with Santa fulfilling my wish list and more.
After getting hooked on the Star Trek: Next Generation novel revival last year, I was really looking forward to [...]

I have been searching the web for a new look for my blog for the past few months. After finding TypeBased by WooThemes, I immediately saw that I had found what I was looking for. The lines are very slick and simple and the color scheme is very professional. I hope that you will enjoy. [...]

After taking a critical look at the freeware section that I have been maintaining on this site, I have changed its format to be a simpler column-based table that shows the names of my favorite freeware applications, along with a much shorter description and listed comparative commercial software, to make it easier to understand what [...]

After writing a few white papers on Human Machine Interface technologies, I recently wrote a paper that I presented as part of the 27th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC). The event was being held in St. Paul, Minnesota, a town I had never visited. After travelling the world in my field for 11 years, and [...]

After Firefox managed to create itself a nice niche amongst web browser, there is now a new kid on the block: Google Chrome. I think that it was inevitable to see Google release their own browser after seeing all of the great online applications that they have developed over the years.
I installed Chrome myself this [...]

As I was driving on the Indianapolis highway after visiting a customer, I saw a big electronic sign for a gas station and saw the price change as I was looking at the sign. While I first thought that it was odd for the price of gas to change in the middle of the day, [...]

After a relatively calm travel summer, I started travelling again this week for a few days. As I was checking in through the self-service system in Montreal for US Airways, I was surprised not to be asked if I wanted to check any luggage. When I got to the counter, I was informed that this [...]

Finding the best RSS Reader application for my needs has been an ongoing search for the last couple of years. After using the desktop client RSS Bandit, then moving to Bloglines, I have tried the Google Reader web-based application a few times without being convinced that it was right for me… until now. What partly [...]

After keeping track of my travel on facebook for some time, I just decided to bring that information on my personal site. You will find a new map section that includes all of my travels around the world.