Author: Will Cox

Like all Wright dwellings, Penfield House is a high maintenance item, which means restoration is an ongoing process. He did have some good ideas, though.

Larry Staton pointed out the Not-So-Big Showhouse. Who knows? Perhaps this exhibition will have an effect similiar to Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. Our ...

Tonight before the Carmel Zoning Board of Appeals, we will request a variance. We are on the agenda. APPLICATION OF C. WILLIAM & DEENA COX FOR A VARIATION ...

The Big Sister just called to tell me that her travelling tots group played soccer today, and she got the ball away from a Big Boy, and scored a GOAL!.

The Journal News led the business section this morning with an article on how Consumers Union is using the Internet to convince Congress to require drug peddler...

Firstly, remember that authentication and authorization are separate issues. Secondly, consider the authentication source as an foreign key, to use database ter...

We finished watching The Village last night. It’s not much of a thriller, but I did like the film. Nice houses, and the village reminded me of Sabbathday ...

Since I go on and on, at least in-house, about security being a usability problem, I’m delighted to see Ka-Ping Yee and others start a Usable Security jou...

There have been some intriguing developments over the past little while, which remain to be absorbed. Via Ben Hammersley, I find a9 OpenSearch, and via that arg...

Apache‘s mod_speling does two things. One thing it does is fold case, making URIs case-insensitive. This is handy when users are moving files between case...

c|net refrained from using the obvious verb in the headline of their story about the Hewlett-Packard‘s acquisition of Snapfish. I’ve been using Snap...

The A & P claims to desire to be our “supermarket of choice.” If I were shopping for choice, that would be swell, but their variety is no better...

Apparently some folks are in a tizzy over Google’s autolink doohickey. Phil Ringnalda pointed out a substantive difference between this thing and the Micr...

I’ve had an issue with the DNS bridging in Apple’s Airport since day one, but it hasn’t really bothered me since nslookup started working on m...

Martin Geddes complained that his new hp desk doesn’t have a built-in microphone. That was news to me. I thought they just pretended to have microphones, ...

Speaking of idiots, the always, ahem, useful Slashdot relays this drivel from AppleInsider: that Apple will release a two-button mouse. I suppose that now that ...

For those not from the area, New Jersey does not have self-service gas stations. The joke, among New Yorkers at least, is that this is because the folks down in...

I’ve been using del.icio.us to keep my bookmarks recently because it solves the bookmark synchronization problem, but I’ve found that there are a lo...

There’s only a certain amount of time in the day. I could either fill my head with rote memorization, and gain no deeper understanding of the systems, or ...

The Big Sister picked new colors for her room. She tells the story of The Picking and The Painting to everyone she meets. And, a side benefit while the paint dr...