I tend to be a fairly funny guy. Well, at least I think I'm funny. My kids might disagree. The thing is, it's hard to find a group of people to understand obscure networking jokes.

Cooler Than Minnesota in January By the time this issue goes to press, the snow in my backyard probably will be only knee deep in the shade.

Big Block Linux with a Four-Barrel Hemi We often brag about how few resources Linux needs to operate: a Raspberry Pi or Beagle Board, in a Web browser (

We need to protect the freedoms in which Linux was born and grew up.

Personally, I thought it was strange for everyone to make a big deal about such an arbitrary number of days.

December 2013's EOF, titled "Mars Needs Women", visited an interesting fact: that the male/female ratio among Linux Journal readers, and Linux kernel developers, is so lopsided (male high, female low) that graphing it would produce a near-vertical line.

Spiders are really cool. Granted, they're terrifying, but they're still really cool.

Lapsang Souchong! Back when we were kids, "security" meant little more than having a secret password to keep little siblings out of the treehouse.

Linux is pretty much an all-male project. Let's change that.

My favorite scene from The Karate Kid (the original from 1984, sorry, I'm old) is when Mr Miyagi stops the Cobra Kai sensei, John Kreese, from beating up his defeated student.

How'd Ya Do That? I tend to read science fiction or fantasy for entertainment and/or escape from reality.

Building a Better Mouse (and Keyboard) Trap I've mentioned in years past that my programming skills started with Pascal and ended with bubble sorting.

No, there's SSH in my browser! Although it may not be as logical of a combination as chocolate and peanut butter, for Chromebook users, an HTML5 SSH client is pretty amazing. Granted, Google's "crosh" shell has SSH abilities, but it's a very limited implementation.

I sleep poorly. In fact, insomnia has plagued me for years. As it turns out, even when I think I'm sleeping well, I'm usually not. There's nothing worse than a shoddy night's sleep followed by an abrupt alarm going off when you've finally settled into a deep slumber. Enter: Sleep as Android.

When our house was built a few years ago (after our house fire), one of the things I wanted was a house wired for Ethernet connectivity.

The Face of a Toaster Science-fiction geeks have very specific definitions for their (okay, "our") jargon. A cyborg is a hybrid mechanical and organic creature.

A Pint-Size Powerhouse with a Tasty-Sounding Name It's hard not to love the Raspberry Pi.

When I was in college, there was a rich kid down the hall who had a computer with 16MB of RAM. Before you scoff, you need to think back to 1993.

I'm the author of the article "Introducing Dart, the New Web Language from Google" in the March 2013 issue. I wrote the article in late December and submitted the article in early January of this year. During the time I was writing it, I was using Dart M2 (version 0.2.9.9). I made sure to have my colleagues check over my code and worked to make sure that everything was perfect!

Remembering Spidey Back before Google was born, and even longer before it became a verb, the World Wide Web was often searched by a little spider on a surfboard.