What would you do if you worked at a food joint with a drive-thru and a car drove up with no one inside? Magic of Rahat, the ‘Magician Prankster’, wanted to see the reaction of people when they see a person-less car go...
Late last year Java was hit with multiple vulnerabilities one after another. Earlier this week another Java exploit was discovered, one that is being actively exploited on the internet by criminals. Due to Java’s seemingly e...
Companies, specifically tech companies, may not be people in and of themselves but they do have characteristics (or personalities, if you will). Because of these characteristics, it is often enticing to compare the companies to ot...
Anyone familiar with the history of the United States knows that in the founding years of the country there was a big struggle between pro-navy and anti-navy advocates. Since then, however, the United States has come to build and ...
So you thought Java season was over, eh? Wrong! It is still open season on Java and a brand new, previously unknown bug has been discovered in Java that allows scumbags to install malware on the computers of netizens. It isn’...
Anyone that has taken an elementary-level Sociology or Psychology knows, among other things, there are two basic types of perceptions of people; perceptions people have of themselves and perceptions people have of others. Generall...
Every year National Geographic holds a photo contest. 2012’s results are in. In total, National Geographic says there were over 22,000 entries. Out of these 22,000 entries, a winner was picked for each category (‘Natur...
Mothers. Mothers are — probably quite literally — genetically coded to bug take care of their children. Part of this parental process is calling the child regularly if the child lives away (sometimes it involves callin...
I will be completely, truly, 100 percent honest with everyone: Ashraf loves cakes. (Ashraf also loves talking about himself in third person, but that is a story for another hour.) Not necessarily all cakes — he is not a big ...
The other day I was thinking about how complex programming has become today and how much easier it was back in the day when writing a ‘Hello World’ program was considered genius. I then commented to my wife on the matt...
A friend of mine used to say (still says?): “flashy lights are for the simple minded”. To an extent, I am sure there is some truth in that statement. After all, one can easily be distracted and awed by otherwise simple...
Any dotTechies, or dotTechies’ children, have read the ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ novels? For those that have not read or heard about them, ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ are children books that allow y...
Sun. The Sun. Our Sun. Without the Sun, most scientists hypothesize there wouldn’t have been life on Earth. We happen to live on a planet that is perfectly positions relative to the Sun; not so close that it is so hot but no...
I do not know about anyone else, but I, for one, enjoy optical illusions. Why? I do not really know. Maybe because they perplex my mind. Maybe because I like feeling smart after I figure them out. Maybe because I am just weird. Wh...
Back in the 1950s, Stockholm Metro (the train company in Stockholm, Sweden) started allowing arts to paint the underground train stations. Flash forward to 2013 and many of Stockholm Metro’s stations are filled with beautifu...
