The Argleton affair, and the Wikification of the World-Wide Web

In a market dominated by the Amazon Kindle, it's easy to forget that Sony, not Amazon, made the first commercially-successful e-book reader.

How worried should we be, that we're wasting electrical energy for no benefit?

The built-in cd command in the bash shell is not as smart as it could be; but it's a little fiddly to extend its functionality.

A military-surplus steel ammunition box makes a great housing for a high-current, outdoor 12V power supply. This article gives some ideas about how to build one.

Java's strict adherence to Unicode standards for text representation ought to make life easier for developers, and usually it does. But not always.