For years now, I have been an advocate for educating the masses on how to use the internet safely, and have verbally and vehemently preached the rationale and necessity for safe internet practices. Up until now, it’s all been through minimal instructional excerpts. With the increased availability of computers in households, and inherent risks abounding, the time has come to take a more pro-active role - from a parental and communal responsibility - to ensure the safety of our kids.

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With the newest security updates released by Microsoft (MS) last week, they have decreased functionality of the IE browser. Specifically, where it involves ActivX control components/code. The release, tagged as a “critical update” was not critical to the security of any MS application, but more of a means (ploy??) for MS to ‘cya’. They are [...]

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We were recently provided with a short guide entitled: “Parents Guide to Internet Slang: Understand How Your Kids Communicate Online.”

Leetspeak, or ‘leet’ for short (a vernacular form of ‘elite’), is a specific type of computer slang in which a user replaces regular letters with other keyboard characters to form words phonetically. Leet words can be expressed in hundreds of ways, using different substitutions and combinations.

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This is, by far, the best writing instrument I’ve ever used. Everything about this pen is indicative of the years of research that went into its development. The precisely balanced and weighted titanium shaft, plasmium filled grip, one-handed drive mechanism, and nitrogen-injected refill (based on the NASA technology enabling one to write upside down, in [...]

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