Today I Learned

Short post this week. It’s Victoria Day weekend in Canada, but that’s not the reason. In fact, I spent most of my (relatively) free...

Pen test? That’s when you try to identify who’s who in this photo of the famous magicians Penn & Teller ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The plaque above was my father’s. I saw it almost every day of my life when I lived with my parents, and it’s now in my home. (I also...

For anyone not familiar with it, Mind Your Language ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_Your_Language ) was a British sitcom running in...

Today, I experienced déjà vu about déjà vu. How cool is that? I was going through Dani Krossing’s ( https://www.youtube.com/user/TheChar...

More, actually, but not with Sgt. Pepper... When I got my first coding job, in the 1990’s, I was working through a certificate in...

In his classic series, Martial Arts and Ways of Japan (Weatherhill, 3 volumes, 1973–1974), Donn Draeger ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

#TIL that the falling green code seen in the Matrix ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_(franchise )) movies is sometimes referred...

One of the rites of passage for anyone learning a programming language is the creation of their first program. For many, the first...

Data is, like, literally radioactive. I was going to comment on the distortion and misuse of the word “literally” and comment that its...

I have a confession to make... While I have worked in the Information Technology (IT) field for over twenty years, I am not a web...

Cryptography makes the world go ‘round. With apologies to Broadway ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Makes_the_World_Go_%27Round_%28...