While still enjoying the holiday with my family I found a recent story in various online forums strangely compelling. It concerned Ian Murdock, an icon in the open source and Linux community for his contribution of Debian (Ubuntu is one of the many Debian derivatives) in 1993 while at Purdue Univ...
Since I haven't been moved to write very much of late, I have promoted last year's Memorial Day article to first post for this year instead.
Memorial Day commemorates those US men and women who have DIED while in military service. It is not a day to honor those who served and lived (Veteran's Day...
I've been interested in Pompeii from an early age, ever since I first read about how the Roman town had been buried by an eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD and that archaeologists were revealing it bit by bit just as it had been thousands of years ago. Images of the macabre body casts of the eruption...
I'm not quite sure why I became so interested in this particular case, but I did. I think it might have been because I have been to a lot of concerts and I never went to one with any thought that I wouldn't make it home again. I followed the story on several websites including websleuths, findm...
